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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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"The history of man is a must read poetry."

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"History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living."

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"History proved many times that path of millions was often the wrong path!"

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"History must be documented, every moment is a sacred history."

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"Religious fundamentalists belong in a museum at the exhibit of medieval antiquities, not in any nation."

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"We encounter great souls, who lived in historical times, in ancient books."

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

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"The answer to all questions of human society is in the lessons of human history, which are revealed in the Bible."

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"History is the hallmark of humanity."

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"The United States was born in the country and moved to the city in the nineteenth century."

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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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"The world has just got more dangerous because the things we use have got more dangerous."
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"Morally, the world is both better and worse than it was. We are worse off than in the middle ages, or the 17th and 18th centuries, in that we have the atomic menace."
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"Barbarians always think of themselves as the bringers of civilization."
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