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Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books – but it is terrible when one has to live it. – Jean Anouilh

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Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Only engage, and then the mind grows heated. Begin, and then the work will be completed. – Jean Anouilh

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To say yes, you have to sweat and roll up your sleeves and plunge both hands into life up to the elbows. Its easy to say no, even if it means dying. – Jean Anouilh

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The people who have really made history are the martyrs. – Aleister Crowley

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History is littered with wars which everybody knew would never happen. – Enoch Powell

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The present is the past rolled up for action, and the past is the present unrolled for understanding. – Will and Ariel Durant, The Reformation

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What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life. – Thomas Mann

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