Quote by Gertrude Stein
It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.

It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself. – Gertrude Stein

Other quotes by Gertrude Stein

But the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still dont get young men standing up and saying, How can I combine career and family? – Gertrude Stein

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Family
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In a war everybody always knows all about Switzerland, in peace times it is just Switzerland but in war time it is the only country that everybody has confidence in, everybody. – Gertrude Stein

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Peace
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History
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The effects of human wickedness are written on the page of history in characters of blood: but the impression soon fades away; so more blood must be shed to renew it. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers

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History

The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with discretion. – Barbara Tuchman

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History

A history in which every particular incident may be true may on the whole be false. – Thomas Babington Macaulay

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History

Billions of people have seen and been influenced by movies in the short history of this industry. – Conrad Hall

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History

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Journalism is concerned with events, poetry with feelings. Journalism is concerned with the look of the world, poetry with the feel of the world. – Archibald MacLeish

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Poetry

We must laugh before we are happy, for fear of dying without having laughed at all. – Jean de La Bruyere

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Happiness

An Inuit hunter asked the local missionary priest: “If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?” “No,” said the priest, “not if you did not know.” “Then why,” asked the Inuit earnestly, “did you tell me?” – Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

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Religion

The Angels were all singing out of tune, and hoarse with having little else to do, excepting to wind up the sun and moon or curb a runaway young star or two. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

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Angels