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There is a dreamlike quality to the 1936 Basque government, the fulfillment of a historic longing that was to be crushed only nine months later in carnage the scale of which had never before been seen on earth.


Mark Kurlansky


#dreams #history #vision #war #dreams

A man who goes forth to take the life of another whom he does not know must believe one thing only - that by his act he will change the course of history.


Yitzhak Shamir


#another #believe #change #course #does

We have said that Israel has had a very bad history with the United Nations, and whoever cares for himself in Israel distances himself from that Organization.


Yitzhak Shamir


#cares #distances #had #himself #history

Even of if a certain backlash is unavoidable, we must make the most of the momentous chance with which history has presented us so swiftly and so unexpectedly.


Moshe Sharett


#certain #chance #even #history #make

Like a lot of Irish households we read a lot of Irish history. It was almost Soviet, raising the next generation with a mythic view of their history.


Fiona Shaw


#generation #history #households #irish #like

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.


George Bernard Shaw


#experience #happens #history #history repeats itself #how

Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.


George Bernard Shaw


#hegel #history #learn #man #never

Tell the Truth. Make it Special. Life’s a Beach. And then you Drown. Good Ideas cost no more than Bad Ones.


Justin Allison


#automotive #social-history #life

I think violence, cynicism, brutality and fashion are the staples of our diet. I think in the grand history of story-telling, going back to people sitting around fires, the dark side of human nature has always been very important. Movies are part of that tradition.


Eric Stoltz


#around #back #been #brutality #cynicism

I am not trying to be a historian and a dramatist; I'm a dramatist, a dramatic historian, or one who does a dramatic interpretation of history.


Oliver Stone


#does #dramatic #dramatist #historian #history






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