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A land without ruins is a land without memories--a land without memories is a land without history.
A land without ruins is a land without memories--a land without memories is a land without history.
Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress read more
Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.
A man can be a hero if he is a scientist, or a soldier, or a drug addict, or a read more
A man can be a hero if he is a scientist, or a soldier, or a drug addict, or a disc jockey, or a crummy mediocre politician. A man can be a hero because he suffers and despairs; or because he thinks logically and analytically; or because he is "sensitive;" or because he is cruel. Wealth establishes a man as a hero, and so does poverty. Virtually any circumstance in a man's life will make him a hero to some group of people and has a mythic rendering in the culture -- in literature, art, theater, or the daily newspapers.
The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks.
The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks.
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: read more
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: "President Can't Swim.".
You can't set a hen in one morning and have chicken salad for lunch.
You can't set a hen in one morning and have chicken salad for lunch.
The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.
The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.
People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history.
People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history.
People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
