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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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All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come. – Victor Hugo

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power
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Victor Hugo
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A saint addicted to excessive self-abnegation is a dangerous associate; he may infect you with poverty, and a stiffening of those joints which are needed for advancement — in a word, with more renunciation than you care for — and so you flee the contagion. – Victor Hugo

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Saint, Saints
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The people in charge, globally, are maniacs. They are maniacs, and unless we do something about it these people are going to deprive us of a future. – Thom Yorke

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Propaganda must appeal to mankinds better judgment and to the necessary belief in a better future. For this belief, the valley of the shadow of death is but a war station on the road to the blessed summit. – Christian Lous Lange

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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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Anything youre trying to will is focused on the future its always associated with some sort of anxiety that makes the present moment somewhat uncomfortable. – Martha Beck

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If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world. – Heinrich Heine

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To express the same idea in still another way, I think that human knowledge is essentially active. – Jean Piaget

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I got a degree in sociology, didnt read much fiction in college, and I was a pretty political, left-wing type of guy. I wanted to do some kind of work in social change and make things better for the poor man, and I was very romantic and passionate about it. – Andre Dubus III

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I buy expensive suits. They just look cheap on me. – Warren Buffett

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