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If the past cannot teach the present and the father cannot teach t

If the past cannot teach the present and the father cannot teach the son, then history need not have bothered to go on, and the world has wasted a great deal of time. – Russell Hoban

Other quotes by Russell Hoban

When you suffer an attack of nerves youre being attacked by the nervous system. What chance has a man got against a system? – Russell Hoban

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Stress
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There are situations in life to which the only satisfactory response is a physically violent one. If you dont make that response, you continually relive the unresolved situation over and over in your life. – Russell Hoban

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Violence
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But when I dont smoke I scarcely feel as if Im living. I dont feel as if Im living unless Im killing myself. – Russell Hoban

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Smoking
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Other Quotes from
Learning
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When Honors sun declines, and Wealth takes wings, Then Learning shines, the best of precious things. – Edward Cocker

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Learning

You make mistakes, but I dont have any regrets. Im the kind of person who takes responsibility for it and deals with it. I learn from everything I do. I work very hard, I have so many things going on in my life. Get to know me and see who I am. – Kim Kardashian

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Learning

I think Id like to stay anchoring because, number one, Im learning a lot, and I love it when Im learning. And number two, I also have the luxury of a stable life. – Linda Vester

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Learning

Study strategy over the years and achieve the spirit of the warrior. Today is victory over yourself of yesterday tomorrow is your victory over lesser men. – Miyamoto Musashi

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Learning

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It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious. – Oscar Wilde

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Charm

They died hard, those savage men – like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them. – Douglas MacArthur

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History

Weve got gays working there. If they can demonstrate long-term relationships, we make same-sex benefits available just as we do with common-law marriages. Gays are productive people. Some fly airplanes, some work in breweries. – Pete Coors

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work

Usually when you see females in movies, they feel like they have these metallic structures around them, they are caged in by male energy. – Bjork

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movies