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Quote by Albert Camus
In our wildest aberrations we dream of an equilibrium we have left

In our wildest aberrations we dream of an equilibrium we have left behind and which we naively expect to find at the end of our errors. Childish presumption which justifies the fact that child-nations, inheriting our follies, are now directing our history. – Albert Camus

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We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead. – Albert Camus

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To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well. – Albert Camus

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As Geography without History seemeth a carkasse without motion; so History without Geography wandreth as a Vagrant without a certaine habitation. – John Smith

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People think too historically. They are always living half in a cemetery. – Aristide Briand

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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 warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions. – Thomas Huxley

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God hates violence. He has ordained that all men fairly possess their property, not seize it. – Euripides

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