Quote by Paul Valery
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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Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business. – Paul Valery

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Art
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History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind. – Edward Gibbon

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History

You look at the greatest villains in human history, the fascists, the autocrats, they all wanted people to kneel before them because they dont love themselves enough. – Tom Hiddleston

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History

Jews have a special relationship to books, and the Haggadah has been translated more widely, and reprinted more often, than any other Jewish book. It is not a work of history or philosophy, not a prayer book, users manual, timeline, poem or palimpsest – and yet it is all these things. – Jonathan Safran Foer

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History

It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded in the history of mankind stays with mankind as a potentiality long after its actuality has become a thing of the past. – Hannah Arendt

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History

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In the sixties, you could always insult a guy by calling him “plastic.” It meant he was phony or superficial. The opposite of plastic was “real.” – Elizabeth Royte, Garbage Land: On the Secret Trail of Trash, 2005

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At the end of four years time, at graduation, we were down to 12. At our reunion that we had several years ago, only 1 out of the 52 actually made it to ordination and priesthood. So there you go, theres your numbers. – Peter Jurasik

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Im famous today. People like me today. Might not like me tomorrow. You cant count on it. – Dave Chappelle

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A garden must be looked into, and dressed as the body. – George Herbert

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