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The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#been #called #handled #human #human race

He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the most busy life. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#busy #busy life #carries #day #every

Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#elevates #god #limits #man #narrow

Nations, like stars, are entitled to eclipse. All is well, provided the light returns and the eclipse does not become endless night. Dawn and resurrection are synonymous. The reappearance of the light is the same as the survival of the soul. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#dawn #does #eclipse #endless #entitled

My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#aristocratic #democratic #tastes

The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#illusions #soul #supported #them #wings

An aristocratic culture does not advertise its emotions. In its forms of expression it is sober and reserved. Its general attitude is stoic. ↗

— Johan Huizinga

#aristocratic #attitude #culture #does #emotions

History creates comprehensibility primarily by arranging facts meaningfully and only in a very limited sense by establishing strict causal connections. ↗

— Johan Huizinga

#causal #connections #creates #establishing #facts

I chaired the 1982 Democratic Party Commission on Presidential Nominations that created certain automatic delegates to the Democratic convention - the 'superdelegates.' It was a good idea then, and it is still a good idea. ↗

— Jim Hunt

#certain #commission #convention #created #delegates

Relationships are made of talk - and talk is for girls and women. ↗

— Deborah Tannen

#made #relationships #talk