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Quote by Gustave Flaubert
Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times. - Gus

Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times. – Gustave Flaubert

Other quotes by Gustave Flaubert

The true poet for me is a priest. As soon as he dons the cassock, he must leave his family. – Gustave Flaubert

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Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars. – Gustave Flaubert

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History is the action and reaction of these two, nature and thought – two boys pushing each other on the curbstone of the pavement. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Conduct of Life: Fate

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Political history is far too criminal and pathological to be a fit subject of study for the young. Children should acquire their heroes and villains from fiction. – W.H. Auden, A Certain World

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Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders. – Margaret Mead

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The Jews greatest contribution to history is dissatisfaction! Were a nation born to be discontented. Whatever exists we believe can be changed for the better. – Shimon Peres

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The main goal of the future is to stop violence. The world is addicted to it. – Bill Cosby

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None of us is responsible for the complexion of his skin. This fact of nature offers no clue to the character or quality of the person underneath. – Marian Anderson

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We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is. – Iris Murdoch

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God sent Jesus as an example to see if we could retain and maintain the Holy Spirit in human flesh. – Benny Hinn

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