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History is the distillation of rumor. - Thomas Carlyle

History is the distillation of rumor. – Thomas Carlyle

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Even in the meanest sorts of labor, the whole soul of a man is composed into a kind of real harmony the instant he sets himself to work. – Thomas Carlyle

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Labor
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The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious. – Thomas Carlyle

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Men have need of history because, without it, the past threatens to overwhelm them. РGuy Fregault, La guerre de la conqu̻te

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Why shouldnt rap be esoteric, able to take in current events, history and criticism? I guess its this old idea of containment – that rappers, because theyre black, cant and shouldnt aspire to look outside the ghetto for influence. – Saul Williams

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Bulls dont read. Bears read financial history. As markets fall to bits, the bears dust off the Dutch tulip mania of 1637, the Banque Royale of 1719-20, the railway speculation of the 1840s, the great crash of 1929. – James Buchan

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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times. – Gustave Flaubert

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I learned more stuff in church than I did in the world. – Al Green

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I mean, its the life lessons that I suppose you learn that nobody gets a free ride and that you do the best you can with the means that you can and try to open yourself to as much knowledge and all that that you can. – Joe Mantegna

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Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart. – Author Unknown

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Too much of a good thing can be wonderful. – Mae West

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