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If you want to study the social and political history of modern na

If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell. – Thomas Merton

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The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them. – Thomas Merton

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Love
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We have what we seek, it is there all the time, and if we give it time, it will make itself known to us. – Thomas Merton

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Time
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Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life. – Thomas Merton

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Death
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It was one of those great miracles of history that they managed to smuggle an Enigma machines out to Britain just before they were invaded by the Nazis. – Michael Apted

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History

History is the synthesis of all social sciences turned towards the past. – Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie

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History

History should be written as philosophy. – Voltaire

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History

History is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us. – Johan Huizinga

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History

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A wise man is not governed by others, nor does he try to govern them; he prefers that reason alone prevail. – La Bruyère, Characters, 1688

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Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without. – Henry David Thoreau

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Some people are electrifying, they light up a room when they leave. – Yiddish Proverb

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Professionalism is a frame of mind, not a paycheck. – Cecil Castle

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