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Quote by Victor Hugo
An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time

An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come. – Victor Hugo

Other quotes by Victor Hugo

There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come. – Victor Hugo

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Ideas
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Victor Hugo
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Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter. – Victor Hugo

Category:
Poetry
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Victor Hugo
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What is history? An echo of the past in the future a reflex from the future on the past. – Victor Hugo

Category:
Future
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Victor Hugo
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You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time. – Abraham Lincoln

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In reality, killing time is only the name for another of the multifarious ways by which Time kills us. – Osbert Sitwell

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Time

The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him he indulges it, he loves it but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time. – Edmund Burke

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Time

The inertia hardest to overcome is that of perfectly good seconds. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

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Time

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The level of communication you can achieve with an infant is really profound. – Mayim Bialik

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