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Quote by Norman Mailer
Revolutions are the periods of history when individuals count most

Revolutions are the periods of history when individuals count most. – Norman Mailer

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The night before I left Las Vegas I walked out in the desert to look at the moon. There was a jeweled city on the horizon, spires rising in the night, but the jewels were diadems of electric and the spires were the neon of signs ten stories high. – Norman Mailer

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Las Vegas
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The war between being and nothingness is the underlying illness of the twentieth century. Boredom slays more of existence than war. – Norman Mailer

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Boredom
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I start with the idea of constructing a treehouse and end with a skyscraper made of wood. – Norman Mailer

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Writing
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You can only get really unpopular decisions through if the electorate is convinced of the value of the environment. Thats what natural history programmes should be for. – David Attenborough

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These fallen heroes represent the character of a nation who has a long history of patriotism and honor – and a nation who has fought many battles to keep our country free from threats of terror. – Michael N. Castle

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The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker. – Richard M. Nixon

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History

History: a collection of epitaphs. – Elbert Hubbard, The Roycroft Dictionary

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There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect it bids a man to ponder or create and in this dim corner of himself he can take refuge and find consolations which the society of his fellow creatures does not provide. – Norman Douglas

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