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Quote by Doug Coupland
We live in an era with no historical precedents. History is no lon

We live in an era with no historical precedents. History is no longer useful as a tool in helping us understand current changes. – Doug Coupland

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If cats were double the size they are now, theyd probably be illegal. – Doug Coupland

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Theres much to be said for feeling numb. Time passes more quickly. You eat less, and because numbness encourages laziness, you do fewer things, good or bad, and the worlds probably a better place for it. – Doug Coupland

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A mind devoid of prepossessions is likely to be devoid of all mental furniture. And the historian who thinks that he can clean his mind as he would a slate with a wet sponge, is ignorant of the simplest facts of mental life. – Allen Johnson, The Historian and Historical Evidence

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Obama has seen to the passage of the most radical legislation in recent American history and so-called progressives should be thanking him for it – even as many of the rest of us rear in horror from its implications. – John Podhoretz

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History does not repeat itself. Historians repeat each other. – Arthur Balfour

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History is but the nail on which the picture hangs. – Alexandre Dumas, Catherine Howard

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It is of the essence of imaginative culture that it transcends the limits both of the naturally possible and of the morally acceptable. – Northrop Frye

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It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen. – Herodotus

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But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. – Khalil Gibran

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Half the time men think they are talking business, they are wasting time. – E. W. Howe

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