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• No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
• It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
• Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
• Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals,… — Aristotle
• All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song. — Louis Armstrong
• This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind. — Neil Armstrong
• All in all, for someone who was immersed in, fascinated by, and dedicated to flight, I was disappointed by the wrinkle in… — Neil Armstrong
• In the history of Wikileaks, nobody has claimed that the material being put out is not authentic. — Julian Assange
• We released 400,000 classified documents, the most extraordinary history of a war to ever have been released in our civilization. Those documents… — Julian Assange
• Natural history is not about producing fables. — David Attenborough
• Cameramen are among the most extraordinarily able and competent people I know. They have to have an insight into natural history that… — David Attenborough
• In the old days... it was a basic, cardinal fact that producers didn't have opinions. When I was producing natural history programmes,… — David Attenborough

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