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George Steiner
Each new historical era mirrors itself in the picture and archive mythology of its past or of a past borrowed from other cultures. It tests its sense of identity, of regress or new achievement, against that past.
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Lewis Mumford
Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf.
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Mark Twain
God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board
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Unknown
Nothing is great like friendship on earth, No jewel No pearl has got it's worth. No one except a friend can be trusted, Your life will never ever get rusted.
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This Is Spinal Tap
David I do not, for one, think that the problem was that the band was down. I think that the problem *may* have been, that there was a Stonehenge monument on the stage that was in danger of being *crushed* by a *dwarf*. Alright That tended to understate the hugeness of the object.
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Paul Ingram
A moment's thought shows that man's feeling of isolation has no foundation, biologically or sociologically. We grow out of the Universe, we are an expression of it. The iron in our blood comes from the high temperature fusion of stars. We constantly interact with our environment. The force of gravity keeps our feet upon the earth and has a vital effect upon our metabolism. The air we breathe comes form the seas and the leaves, and the sun allows the process to take place. Society gives us all that makes us human our culture, our symbols, our concepts and our values. Without society, the notion of the individual would have no meaning.
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Francis Bacon
Many secrets of art and nature are thought by the unlearned to be magical.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
When you strike at a king, you must kill him.
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Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation.
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Thomas Jefferson
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
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Thomas B. Reed
A statesman is a successful politician who is dead.
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Sir Francis Bacon
A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.
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