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" History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce. "
Karl Marx
History Repeats Itself
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" More than ever, I am convinced that history has meaning - and that its meaning is terrifying. "
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" A weak people and its equally debilitated leaders are bludgeoned by history. It maims them into the cripples that they are meant to be. "
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" If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this. "
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" We just feel like history repeats itself. You ain't never going to see nothing brand new; you're only going to see when records are broken. And we're here to just set records and set trends and follow the footsteps that have been shown to us. "
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" Dad, I'm in some trouble. There's been an accident and you're going to hear all sorts of things about me from now on. Terrible things. "
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" Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending. "
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" A specter is haunting Europe - the specter of communism. "
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" I don't ever remember a single day of hopelessness. I knew from the history of the labor movement, especially of the black people, that it was an undertaking of great trial. That, live or die, I had to stick with it, and we had to win. "
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" Tell the FBI that the kidnappers should pick out a judge that Nixon wants back. "
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" Legend remains victorious in spite of history. "
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" Sometimes - history needs a push. "
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" History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap. "
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" I hated the lost colony; in second grade, we were doing American History, and they said, We don't know what happened to them. That drove me nuts. That lost colony drove me crazy. "
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" The transition from dictatorship to democracy is always very difficult, and if you read a history of any country that went through this, it wasn't easy. And, you know, you don't end dictatorship one day and next day you have fully fledged democracy. "
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" Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World. "
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" The worst pandemic in modern history was the Spanish flu of 1918, which killed tens of millions of people. Today, with how interconnected the world is, it would spread faster. "
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" As a student, I was more gifted in history and geography. Things like arithmetic were not my strength. "
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" History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man. "
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" No tyrant, however evil, has yet lacked ready hands to execute his most abominable will. To read how eagerly men have rushed to serve the despot is the bitterest, the saddest matter of history; it is the saddest sight in our own day. "
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" Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history. "
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" Through all of history mankind has ingested psychedelic substances. Those substances exist to put you in touch with spirits beyond yourself, with the creator, with the creative impulse of the planet. "
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