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Pierre Schaeffer

"The only hope is that our civilization will collapse at a certain point, as always happens in history. Then, out of barbarity, a renaissance."

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"The only hope is that our civilization will collapse at a certain point, as always happens in history. Then, out of barbarity, a renaissance."

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"History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes."

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"There were in the camp a number of Mexican slaves and these ran forth calling out in spanish and were brained or shot and one of the Delawares emerged from the smoke with a naked infant dangling in each hand and squatted at a ring of midden stones and swung them by the heels each in turn and bashed their heads against the stones so that the brains burst forth through the fontanel in a bloody spew and humans on fire came shrieking forth like berserkers and the riders hacked them down with their enormous knives and a young woman ran up and embraced the bloodied forefeet of Glanton's warhorse."

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"Being that the *historical* Jesus was of pure Hebraic descent- lineage of Eber- He was not an Arab or of Arabic descent, therefore He was not dark skinned as most Israeli's are not."

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"The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself."

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"To write history one must be more than a man, since the author who holds the pen of this great justiciary must be free from all preoccupation of interest or vanity."

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"It is supposed to be true that those who do not know history are condemned to repeat it. I dont believe knowing can save us. What is constant in history is greed and foolishness and a love of blood and this is a thing that even God - who knows all that can be known - seems powerless to change."

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"The king is dead. Long live the queen."

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"Mexico and the U.S. are bound not only because of the common border, but by a shared culture and history."

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"There is a noble and a base side to every history."

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"Crazy Horse saw history as integrated in the present, incorporated into daily life."

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"The world changes materially. Science makes advances in technology and understanding. But the world of humanity doesn't change."
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"Has it struck you that the music which is regarded as the most sublime in western civilization, which is the music of Bach, is called baroque?"
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"Barbarians always think of themselves as the bringers of civilization."
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"People who share the same language, French or Chinese or whatever, have the same vocal cords and emit sounds which are basically the same, as they come from the same throats and lungs."
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"First, it doesn't surprise me that traditional music has experienced a kind of exhaustion in the 20th century - not forgetting that many musicians started to look outside the traditional structures of tonality."
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