Quote by Francis Ponge
History — that little sewer where man loves to wallow. - Fra

History — that little sewer where man loves to wallow. – Francis Ponge

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Another way of approaching the thing is to consider it unnamed, unnamable. – Francis Ponge

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This empire, unlike any other in the history of the world, has been built primarily through economic manipulation, through cheating, through fraud, through seducing people into our way of life, through the economic hit men. I was very much a part of that. – John Perkins

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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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I did not come to NASA to make history. – Sally Ride

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The tapestry of history that seems so full of tragedy when viewed from the front has countless comic scenes woven into its reverse side. In truth, tragedy and comedy are the twin masks of history – its mass appeal. – José Ortega y Gasset, Historical Reason

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