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History is the science of things which are not repeated. - Paul Va

History is the science of things which are not repeated. – Paul Valery

Other quotes by Paul Valery

In poetry everything which must be said is almost impossible to say well. – Paul Valery

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Poetry
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Paul Valery
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The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us. – Paul Valery

Category:
Science
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Paul Valery
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Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature. – Paul Valery

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Science
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Other Quotes from
History
category

Barack Obama is one of the greatest politicians in American history. – John Podhoretz

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History

History is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us. – Johan Huizinga

Category:
History

The history of the world shows that peoples and societies do not have to pass through a fixed series of stages in the course of development. – Aung San Suu Kyi

Category:
History

The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle. – Eric Hoffer, The True Believer

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History

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It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull. – H. L. Mencken

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Certainty

For those who seek to understand it, death is a highly creative force. The highest spiritual values of life can originate from the thought and study of death. – Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

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Death

She throws her coin into a fountain already filled with hopeful coins, yet wonders if the wishes might become tangled. – Dr.SunWolf, professorsunwolf.com

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For the level of condition that I have now, that was without a doubt the hardest physical thing I have ever done. I never felt a point where I hit the wall. It was really a gradual progression of fatigue and soreness. – Lance Armstrong

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