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The real history of consciousness starts with ones first lie. - Jo

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

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I do not believe in political movements. I believe in personal movement, that movement of the soul when a man who looks at himself is so ashamed that he tries to make some sort of change – within himself, not on the outside. – Joseph Brodsky

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If history, philosophy and so on vanish from academic life, what they leave in their wake may be a technical training facility or corporate research institute. But it will not be a university in the classical sense of the term, and it would be deceptive to call it one. – Terry Eagleton

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History

We have nothing in our history or position to invite aggression we have everything to beckon us to the cultivation of relations of peace and amity with all nations. – Franklin P. Adams

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History

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it. – Winston Churchill

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After being Turned Down by numerous Publishers, he had decided to write for Posterity. – George Ade

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Whose madness was a challenge hurled at fate… – Edgar Fawcett, “At a Window,” Songs of Doubt and Dream, 1891

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It appears to me that almost any man may like the spider spin from his own inwards his own airy citadel. – John Keats

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Many of the insights of the saint stem from their experience as sinners. – Eric Hoffer

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To take a photograph is to participate in another persons mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to times relentless melt. – Susan Sontag

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