Quote by Paul Valery
The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absu

The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds. – Paul Valery

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Every beginning is a consequence — every beginning ends some thing. – Paul Valery

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

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It is the true office of history to represent the events themselves, together with the counsels, and to leave the observations and conclusions thereupon to the liberty and faculty of every mans judgment. – Francis Bacon

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Almost the whole of history is but a sequence of horrors. – Nicolas Chamfort, Maxims and Considerations

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The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice their choice! – Dwight D. Eisenhower

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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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