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Quote by Victor Hugo
We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope.

We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present. – Victor Hugo

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What is history? An echo of the past in the future a reflex from the future on the past. – Victor Hugo

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The ideal and the beautiful are identical the ideal corresponds to the idea, and beauty to form hence idea and substance are cognate. – Victor Hugo

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I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss! – Victor Hugo

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When told the reason for Daylight Saving time the old Indian said, “Only a white man would believe that you could cut a foot off the top of a blanket and sew it to the bottom of a blanket and have a longer blanket.” – Author Unknown

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A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is. – Bertrand Russell

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I keep working because I learn something new all the time. – Clint Eastwood

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We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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