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Quote by Hermann Hesse
Without words, without writing and without books there would be no

Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity. – Hermann Hesse

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To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning. – Hermann Hesse

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Faith
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Hermann Hesse
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Within you there is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself. – Hermann Hesse

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Serenity
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I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value. – Hermann Hesse

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good
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Other Quotes from
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The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. – Abraham Lincoln

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History

My father was my main influence. He was a preacher, but he was also a history and political science teacher, and since he was my hero, I wanted to follow in his footsteps and become a teacher. – David Soul

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History

It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded in the history of mankind stays with mankind as a potentiality long after its actuality has become a thing of the past. – Hannah Arendt

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History

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. – Barbara Tuchman

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History

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The epitaphs on tombstones of a great many people should read: Died at thirty, and buried at sixty. – Nicholas Murray Butler

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Movies are all about plot. Theater, even if its story heavy, its about ideas. – Harvey Fierstein

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movies

Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind. – Buddha

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Peace

If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying. – Indira Gandhi

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Death