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De Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolut

De Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolutionary of history. – Aldous Huxley

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Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power. – Aldous Huxley

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Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead. – Aldous Huxley

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Nowhere else in history has there ever been a flag that stands for the right to burn itself. This is the fractal of our flag. It stands for the right to destroy itself. – Ken Kesey

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Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want not the alleviation but the silencing of misery. – Albert Camus

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The lessons of history? There are four: The bee fertilizes the flower it robs; whom the gods would destroy they first make mad with power; the mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceeding small; when it is dark enough, you can see the stars. – Charles Austin Beard

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As Geography without History seemeth a carkasse without motion; so History without Geography wandreth as a Vagrant without a certaine habitation. – John Smith

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Book tours and research provide a lot of travel – too much, I sometimes think, but we do take vacations. – Bernard Cornwell

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The thief. Once committed beyond a certain point he should not worry himself too much about not being a thief any more. Thieving is Gods message to him. Let him try and be a good thief. – Samuel Butler

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Memory is the mother of all wisdom. – Aeschylus

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Work alone is noble. – Thomas Carlyle

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