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James Joyce is right about history being a nightmare-- but it may

James Joyce is right about history being a nightmare– but it may be that nightmare from which no one can awaken. People are trapped in history and history in trapped in them. – James Baldwin

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Children have never been good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them. – James Baldwin

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Listening
Author
James Baldwin
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There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention. – James Baldwin

Category:
Failure
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James Baldwin
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History
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Its incredible to have been part of fashion history – my whole career has been one big highlight. – Helena Christensen

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History

History is a jangle of accidents, blunders, surprises and absurdities, and so is our knowledge of it, but if we are to report it at all we must impose some order upon it. – Henry Steele Commanger, The Nature and the Study of History

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History

Young women today often have very little appreciation for the real battles that took place to get women where they are today in this country. I dont know how much history young women today know about those battles. – Sandra Day OConnor

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History

History should be written as philosophy. – Voltaire

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History

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The face is the index of the mind. – Proverb

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The best preparation for the future is the present well seen to, and the last duty done. – George MacDonald

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Carry laughter with you wherever you go. – Hugh Sidey

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As long as the food is well prepared and not overdone, I think it tastes good. It doesnt matter if its Chinese, Japanese, anything. – Martin Yan

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Food