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Quote by Cecil Beaton
Never in the history of fashion has so little material been raised

Never in the history of fashion has so little material been raised so high to reveal so much that needs to be covered so badly. – Cecil Beaton

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Americans have an abiding belief in their ability to control reality by purely material means… airline insurance replaces the fear of death with the comforting prospect of cash. – Cecil Beaton

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I feel like Im too busy writing history to read it. – Kanye West

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To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasnt everything. – Albert Camus

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The odds are always against you no matter what your previous history is. You have to overcome the tendency to relax. – Tom Osborne

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History is past politics, and politics present history. – John Robert Seeley, The Growth of British Policy

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On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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You have reckoned that history ought to judge the past and to instruct the contemporary world as to the future. The present attempt does not yield to that high office. It will merely tell how it really was. – Leopold Von Ranke

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