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#centuries

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Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing.


G. M. Trevelyan


#been #cannot #centuries #done #enough

Revolution! The people howls and cries, Freedom, that's what we're needing! We've needed it for centuries, our arteries are bleeding. The stage is shaking, the audience rock. The whole thing is over by nine o'clock.


Kurt Tucholsky


#audience #bleeding #centuries #clock #cries

In the forty years of the people's republic, some of the worst historical traits were preserved in our people. These included even the common characteristics developed in the economic reality of the time of partitions in the 17th and 18th centuries.


Andrzej Wajda


#characteristics #common #developed #economic #even

I belong to a nation which over the past centuries has experienced many hardships and reverses. The world reacted with silence or with mere sympathy when Polish frontiers were crossed by invading armies and the sovereign state had to succumb to brutal force.


Lech Walesa


#belong #brutal #centuries #crossed #experienced

All old music was modern once, and much more of the music of yesterday already sounds more old-fashioned than works which were written three centuries ago.


Peter Warlock


#already #centuries #modern #more #much

Common folk didn't have last names in the 8th and 9th centuries.


Chelsea Quinn Yarbro


#common #folk #last #names

The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the people versus the banks.


Lord Acton


#centuries #down #fought #issue #later

The Chinese government wants me to say that for many centuries Tibet has been part of China. Even if I make that statement, many people would just laugh. And my statement will not change past history. History is history.


Dalai Lama


#centuries #change #china #chinese #chinese government

There are some centuries which - apart from everything else - in the art and other disciplines presume to remake everything because they know how to make nothing.


Giacomo Leopardi


#art #because #centuries #disciplines #else

The tourist who moves about to see and hear and open himself to all the influences of the places which condense centuries of human greatness is only a man in search of excellence.


Max Lerner


#centuries #condense #excellence #greatness #hear






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