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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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Our judgments judge us, and nothing reveals us, exposes our weaknesses, more ingeniously than the attitude of pronouncing upon our fellows. – Paul Valery

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Attitude
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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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No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now. – Richard M. Nixon

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The memories of men are too frail a thread to hang history from. – John Still, The Jungle Tide

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We have our own history, our own language, our own culture. But our destiny is also tied up with the destinies of other people – history has made us all South Africans. – Mangosuthu Buthelezi

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History is past politics, and politics present history. – John Robert Seeley, The Growth of British Policy

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