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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

Other quotes by Victor Hugo

I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss! – Victor Hugo

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Nothing else in the world… not all the armies… is so powerful as an idea whose time has come. – Victor Hugo

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Time
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A day will come when a cannon will be exhibited in museums, just as instruments of torture are now, and the people will be astonished that such a thing could have been. – Victor Hugo

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Other Quotes from
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It would be wonderful to think that the future is unknown and sort of surprising. – Alan Rickman

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As a child is indulged or checked in its early follies, a ground is generally laid for the happiness or misery of the future man. – Samuel Richardson

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Run to meet the future or its going to run you down. – Anthony J. DAngelo

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Im always interested in looking forward toward the future. Carving out new ways of looking at things. – Herbie Hancock

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I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion. – Thomas Jefferson

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Do not tell a friend anything you would conceal from an enemy. – Arabic Proverb

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The chief glory of every people arises from its authors. – Samuel Johnson

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When you get to your wits end, you will find, God lives there. – Author Unknown

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