"God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly."
-Paul Valery
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"The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds.“
-Paul Valery
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"God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through."
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"The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up."
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"An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it."
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"War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don't massacre each other."
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"Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business."
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"History will be kind to me for I intend to write it."
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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."
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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."
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"Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe."
-H. G. Wells
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