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Mysticism and exaggeration go together. A mystic must not fear ridicule if he is to push all the way to the limits…
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Isn't beer the holy libation of sincerity? The potion that dispels all hypocrisy, any charade of fine manners? The drink that does…
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People are always shouting they want to create a better future. It's not true. The future is an apathetic void of no…
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The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness.
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There is a secret bond between slowness and memory, between speed and forgetting.
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Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end.
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War and culture, those are the two poles of Europe, her heaven and hell, her glory and shame, and they cannot be…
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There is such a thing as everyday, ordinary, vulgar ecstasy; the ecstasy of anger, the ecstasy of speed at the wheel, the…
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He took over anger to intimidate subordinates, and in time anger took over him.
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The love between dog and man is idyllic, dogs were never expelled from paradise.
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We don't know when our name came into being or how some distant ancestor acquired it. We don't understand our name at…
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The reign of imagagology begins where history ends.
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History, human or geological, represents our hypothesis, couched in terms of past events, devised to explain our present-day observations.
— M. King Hubbert
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Whether he is aware of it or not, every human being dwells in tradition and history. Human memory is this constant dwelling…
— Medard Boss
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Fiction is history, human history, or it is nothing.
— Joseph Conrad
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Perhaps for the first time in history, human-kind has the capacity to create far more information than anyone can absorb; to foster…
— Peter Senge
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It takes so little, so infinitely little, for a person to cross the border beyond which everything loses meaning: love, convictions, faith,…
— Milan Kundera
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To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of…
— A.C. Grayling
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Whether one believes in evolution, intelligent design, or Divine Creation, one thing is certain. Since the beginning of history, human beings have…
— Mohamed ElBaradei
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For the vast majority of world history, human life - both culture and biology - was shaped by scarcity. Food, clothing, shelter,…
— Martha Beck
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