Quote by Joseph Brodsky
The real history of consciousness starts with ones first lie. - Jo

The real history of consciousness starts with ones first lie. – Joseph Brodsky

Other quotes by Joseph Brodsky

What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness. – Joseph Brodsky

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Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. – Barbara Tuchman

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History

History offers no evidence for the proposition that the assignment of women to military combat jobs is the way to win wars, improve combat readiness, or promote national security. – Phyllis Schlafly

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History

Political history is far too criminal and pathological to be a fit subject of study for the young. Children should acquire their heroes and villains from fiction. – W.H. Auden, A Certain World

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History
[T]he historian lays humanity on the couch. – Lynn White, Jr.

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Lately I did a film called All I Want for Christmas and it was well received. This gave me a new point of view and a new respect for my work as an actress. – Sarah Polley

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Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world. Yet from this lesson thou will learn to avoid the frogs foolish ambition of swelling to rival the bigness of the ox. – Miguel de Cervantes

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Worse there cannot be a better, I believe, there may be, by giving energy to the capital and skill of the country to produce exports, by increasing which, alone, can we flatter ourselves with the prospect of finding employment for that part of our population now unemployed. – Joseph Hume

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A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed. – Ansel Adams

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