"The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death."
-E. M. Forster
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"If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country."
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"We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us."
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"What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote."
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"Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face. The beauty who does not look surprised, who accepts her position as her due - she reminds us too much of a prima donna."
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"Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake."
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"Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. And today? Today is a gift. That's why we call it the present."
-Babatunde Olatunji
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"History will be kind to me for I intend to write it."
-Winston Churchill
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"Man's naked form belongs to no particular moment in history it is eternal, and can be looked upon with joy by the people of all ages."
-Auguste Rodin
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"If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality."
-Desmond Tutu
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"History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are."
-David McCullough
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"Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe."
-H. G. Wells
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