Quote by Thomas Mann
What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ide

What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life. – Thomas Mann

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The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life. – Thomas Mann

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Death
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Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols. – Thomas Mann

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Time
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For I must tell you that we artists cannot tread the path of Beauty without Eros keeping company with us and appointing himself as our guide. – Thomas Mann

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Beauty
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History is a jangle of accidents, blunders, surprises and absurdities, and so is our knowledge of it, but if we are to report it at all we must impose some order upon it. – Henry Steele Commanger, The Nature and the Study of History

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History

Americans love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle. – George S. Patton

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History

Ideas shape the course of history. – John Maynard Keynes

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History

Was it not enough punishment and suffering in history that we were uprooted and made helpless slaves not only in new colonial outposts but also domestically. – Robert Mugabe

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History

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Most people come to fear not death itself, but the many terrible ways of dying. – Polly Toynbee

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Fear

At my age, I dont think anyone is untouched by cancer. – Bryan Cranston

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Age

A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing. – Victor Hugo

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Faith

I think it will be found that experience, the true source and foundation of all knowledge, invariably confirms its truth. – Thomas Malthus

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Knowledge