History teaches, but it has no pupils.
~ Antonio Gramsci
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Monthly Archives: October 2006
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Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered — either by themselves or by others. But for the Civil War, Lincoln and Grant and Sherman and Sheridan would not have been discovered, nor have risen into notice.
~ Mark Twain
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There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.
~ Iris Murdoch
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Let us not underrate the value of a fact; it will one day flower in a truth.
~ Henry David Thoreau
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We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking.
~ Albert Camus
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