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Quote by Victor Hugo
What is history? An echo of the past in the future a reflex from t

What is history? An echo of the past in the future a reflex from the future on the past. – Victor Hugo

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Have no fear of robbers or murderers. They are external dangers, petty dangers. We should fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices the real murders. The great dangers are within us. Why worry about what threatens our heads or purses? Let us think instead of what threatens our souls. – Victor Hugo

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Integrity
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Victor Hugo
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Be it true or false, what is said about men often has as much influence on their lives, and especially on their destinies, as what they do. – Victor Hugo

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Miscellaneous
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Victor Hugo
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Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God. – Victor Hugo

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God
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Other Quotes from
Future
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We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past and we must respect the past, remembering that it was once all that was humanly possible. – George Santayana

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Future

I see Turkeys future as being in Europe, as one of many prosperous, tolerant, democratic countries. – Orhan Pamuk

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Future

Life is a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of a future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity to matter. – Charles Lindbergh

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Future

Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past. – Lewis Mumford

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Future

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Your capacity to keep your vow will depend on the purity of your life. – Mahatma Gandhi

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Promises

Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness and convenience to itself. – Woodrow Wilson

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Politics

I think that every state in the union should recognize same-sex marriage. – Cass Sunstein

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Marriage

Name the season’s first hurricane Zelda and fool Mother Nature into calling it a year. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Weather