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The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
We live in a world where amnesia is the most wished-for state. When did history become a bad word?
We live in a world where amnesia is the most wished-for state. When did history become a bad word?
Yesterday is but a dream, tomorrow but a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, read more
Yesterday is but a dream, tomorrow but a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow | a vision of hope. Look well, therefore, to this day.
The past always looks better than it was because it isn't here.
The past always looks better than it was because it isn't here.
The past is a work of art, free of irrelevancies and loose ends.
The past is a work of art, free of irrelevancies and loose ends.
The contact with manners then is education; and this Thucydides
appears to assert when he says history is philosophy read more
The contact with manners then is education; and this Thucydides
appears to assert when he says history is philosophy learned from
examples.
You must pursue this investigation of Watergate even if it leads to the president. I'm innocent. You've got to believe read more
You must pursue this investigation of Watergate even if it leads to the president. I'm innocent. You've got to believe I'm innocent. If you don't, take my job.
Tyranny destroys or strengthens the individual; freedom enervates him, until he becomes no more than a puppet. Man has more read more
Tyranny destroys or strengthens the individual; freedom enervates him, until he becomes no more than a puppet. Man has more chances of saving himself by hell than by paradise.
The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the read more
The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield.