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Alexander Smith

"I go into my library and all history unrolls before me."

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Amber Hurdle

"If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility."

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Amber Hurdle

"In the legal respect, after the execution of the supposed incendiaries, the other half of Moscow burned down."

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Amber Hurdle

"Up to 90% of all inventions of the world comes from the Protestant world."

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"And out of that hopeless attempt has come nearly all that we call human history-money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery-the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy."

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Amber Hurdle

"Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point."

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"If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of 22, it would have changed the history of music and of aviation."

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"In the parlor was a huge camera on wheels like the ones used in public parks, and the backdrop of a marine twilight, painted with homemade paints, and the walls papered with pictures of children at memorable moments: the first Communion, the bunny costume, the happy birthday. Year after year, during contemplative pauses on afternoons of chess, Dr. Urbino had seen the gradual covering over of the walls, and he had often thought with a shudder of sorrow that in the gallery of casual portraits lay the germ of the future of the city, governed and corrupted by those unknown children, where note even the ashes of his glory would remain."

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Amber Hurdle

"That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history."

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Amber Hurdle

"Our aadivasi sisters and brothers have played a paramount role in the freedom struggle. For hundreds of years, people across villages of the country kept alive the flame of sacrifices for attaining independence. They left no stone unturned in helping India attain freedom."

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Amber Hurdle

"All that we call human history--money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery--[is] the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy."

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"Trees are your best antiques."
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"We bury love; Forgetfulness grows over it like grass: That is a thing to weep for, not the dead."
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"A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor."
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"A man doesn't plant a tree for himself. He plants it for posterity."
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"Christmas is the day that holds all time together."
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"The world is not so much in need of new thoughts as that when thought grows old and worn with usage it should, like current coin, be called in, and, from the mint of genius, reissued fresh and new."
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"If you wish to make a man look noble, your best course is to kill him. What superiority he may have inherited from his race, what superiority nature may have personally gifted him with, comes out in death."
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"Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of human life."
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"A great man is the man who does something for the first time."
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"I would rather be remembered by a song than by a victory."
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