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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War: a massacre of people who dont know each other for the profit of people who know each other but dont massacre each other. – Paul Valery

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War
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God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly. – Paul Valery

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

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History

Ive never been nostalgic, personally or politically – if the past was so great, how come its history? – Julie Burchill

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History

Their memorys like a train: you can see it getting smaller as it pulls away And the things you cant remember Tell the things you cant forget that History puts a saint in every dream. – Tom Waits

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History

Lets be very honest about what this is about. Its not about bashing Democrats, its not about taxes, they have no idea what the Boston tea party was about, they dont know their history at all. This is about hating a black man in the White House. This is racism straight up. – Janeane Garofalo

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History

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Some places speak distinctly. Certain dank gardens cry aloud for a murder; certain old houses demand to be haunted; certain coasts are set apart for shipwrecks. – Robert Louis Stevenson

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If your opponent is playing several shots in vain attempts to extricate himself from a bunker, do not stand near him and audibly count his strokes. It would be justifiable homicide if he wound up his pitiable exhibition by applying his niblick to your head. – Harry Vardon

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Love is what makes two people sit in the middle of a bench when there is plenty of room at both ends. – Author Unknown

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My greatest wealth is the deep stillness in which I strive and grow and win what the world cannot take from me with fire or sword. – Johan Wolfgang Von Goethe

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