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Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe. – Susan Sontag

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Cancer patients are lied to, not just because the disease is (or is thought to be) a death sentence, but because it is felt to be obscene — in the original meaning of that word: ill-omened, abominable, repugnant to the senses. – Susan Sontag

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Cancer
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What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine. – Susan Sontag

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People
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For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the obscene mystery, the ultimate affront, the thing that cannot be controlled. It can only be denied. – Susan Sontag

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Death
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[History is a] mixture of error and violence. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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History

I think the materialist conception of history is valid. – Christopher Hitchens

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History

To be converted you have to destroy your past, destroy your history. You have to stamp on it, you have to say my ancestral culture does not exist, it doesnt matter. – V. S. Naipaul

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History

World history is tragic. – Friedrich Durrenmatt

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History

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Abstention means you stayed at home or went to the beach. By casting a blank vote, youre saying you have a political conscience but you dont agree with any of the existing parties. – Jose Saramago

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Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind. – Plato

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I have always viewed the mission of Wikipedia to be much bigger than just creating a killer website. Were doing that of course, and having a lot of fun doing it, but a big part of what motivates us is our larger mission to affect the world in a positive way. – Jimmy Wales

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Thanksgiving is possible only for those who take time to remember; no one can give thanks who has a short memory. – Author Unknown

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