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The majority see the obstacles the few see the objectives history records the successes of the latter, while oblivion is the reward of the former. – Alfred A. Montapert

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If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this. – C. S. Lewis

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Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history. – Octavio Paz

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My argument is that War makes rattling good history but Peace is poor reading. – Thomas Hardy

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I thought that all of the sacrifices and blessings of the whole history of mankind have devolved upon me. Thank you, God. – Ben Stein

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Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him. – George Bernard Shaw

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Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire. – Jorge Luis Borges

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Most men seem to live according to sense rather than reason. – Thomas Aquinas

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A friend who is near and dear may in time become as useless as a relative. – George Ade

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