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“Only the learned read old books, and... now... they are of all men the least likely to acquire wisdom by doing so. ...[G]reat scholars are now as little nourished by the past as the most ignorant m...”
“Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.”
“Historical sense and poetic sense should not, in the end, be contradictory, for if poetry is the little myth we make, history is the big myth we live, and in our living, constantly remake.”
“Stone-cutters fighting time with marble, you fore defeated Challengers of oblivion Eat cynical earnings, knowing rock splits, records fall down, The square-limbed Roman letters Scale in the thaws, ...”
“Say you could view a time lapse film of our planet: what would you see? Transparent images moving through light, an infinite storm of beauty.The beginning is swaddled in mists, blasted by random bl...”
“This Earle of Oxford, making of his low obeisance to Queen Elizabeth, happened to let a Fart, at which he was so abashed and ashamed that he went to Travell, 7 yeares. On his returne the Queen welc...”
“Now according to German logic, a declaration of war was found to be unnecessary because of imaginary bombings”
“Everything that can be invented has been invented.”
“People are always shouting they want to create a better future. It's not true. The future is an apathetic void of no interest to anyone. The past is full of life, eager to irritate us, provoke and ...”
“The Delores tank rolled on inexorably, You get a mortgage to buy a house, a larger mortgage than the previous owner because the price of the house has been artificially increased by the market, whi...”
“Successful revolutions are those which end up by erasing all traces of themselves.”
“They knew that to put God in the constitution was to put man out. They knew that the recognition of a Deity would be seized upon by fanatics and zealots as a pretext for destroying the liberty of t...”
“History is changed by martyrs who tell the truth.”
“Its very important that people take back their minds and that people analyse our dilemma in the context of the entire human story from the descent onto the grassland to our potential destiny as cit...”
“The NHS will last as long as there are folk left with faith to fight for it”
“If an important decision is to be made, they [the Persians] discuss the question when they are drunk, and the following day the master of the house where the discussion was held submits their decis...”
“Corrupt citizens breed corrupt rulers, and it is the mob who finally decides when virtue shall die.”
“He may be incensed, said Dizzy. I've never doubted the old parson's faith, but it has no place in politics. Good God, just imagine if each man allowed himself to be swayed by moral compunctions; we...”
“If any era should be aware of the temptations to rewrite history, it is our own.”
“I think I have done well, though I am abandoned, with the curse of Cain upon me.”
