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Quote by Jean Anouilh
Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in histo

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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Propaganda is a soft weapon; hold it in your hands too long, and it will move about like a snake, and strike the other way. – Jean Anouilh

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Propaganda
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Events in the past may roughly be divided into those which probably never happened and those which do not matter. – W.R. Inge, Assessments and Anticipations

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There is nothing glorious about what our ancestors call history. It is simply a succession of mistakes, intolerances and violations. – Claude Vorilhon

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History

Does history repeat itself, the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce? No, that – Julian Barnes

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History

Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all: the conscientious historian will correct these defects. – Herodotus, The History of Herodotus

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You have to be smart. The easy days are over. – Robert Kiyosaki

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Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power. – Horace Mann

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I think the most exciting thing is that you expect people our age to know the music, but actually a lot of kids know the music, and if anything is left, we have left really good music, and thats the important part, not the mop-tops or whatever. – Ringo Starr

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Im not a figurehead for anything. I was a single mom with two kids. What else was I going to do? It was either be in a band or be a waitress. – Chrissie Hynde

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