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The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.


Mark Twain


#fluid #ink #merely #prejudice #very

Becoming emancipated at 14, my life wasn't normal. I didn't have to go to school, so I didn't. I was rebellious by nature. I spent my 20s focusing on my company, Flower Films, and producing movies. Now that I'm almost 30, I would like to try other things in lie. I'm crazy about photography, and I want to take an art history class.


Drew Barrymore


#almost #art #art history #becoming #class

Something new has happened: For the first time in German history our fatherland is guided by a plan that considers only the needs of the people, and aims at building prosperity and reconstructing of our fatherland.


Walter Ulbricht


#building #considers #fatherland #first #first time

Value your freedom or you will lose it, teaches history. 'Don't bother us with politics', respond those who don't want to learn.


Richard Stallman


#freedom #history #learn #lose #politics

There are only patterns, patterns on top of patterns, patterns that affect other patterns. Patterns hidden by patterns. Patterns within patterns. If you watch close, history does nothing but repeat itself. What we call chaos is just patterns we haven't recognized. What we call random is just patterns we can't decipher. what we can't understand we call nonsense. What we can't read we call gibberish. There is no free will. There are no variables.


Chuck Palahniuk


#history #history-repeating-itself #patterns #free

It frustrates and fascinates me that we'll never know for sure, that despite the best efforts of historians and scientists and poets, there are some things we'll just never know. What the first song sounded like. How it felt to see the first photograph. Who kissed the first kiss, and if it was any good.


Isaac Marion


#the-unknowable #effort

In terms of size, mammals are an anomaly, as the vast majority of the world's existing species are snail-sized or smaller. It's almost as if, regardless of your kingdom, the smaller your size & the earlier your place on the tree of life, the more critical is your niche on Earth: snails & worms create soil, & blue-green algae create oxygen; mammals seem comparatively dispensable, the result of the random path of evolution over a luxurious amount of time.


Elisabeth Tova Bailey


#natural-history #non-fiction #life

Sir, I shall not defeat you - I shall transcend you.


Benjamin Disraeli


#history #literature #politics #defeat

We learn from history that we don't learn from history!


Desmond Tutu


#history #south-africa #africa

What one generation finds ridiculous, the next accepts; and the third shudders when it looks back on what the first did.


Peter Singer


#history #philosophy #ethics






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