You only live a short time... and you are dead a long time.
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History can predict nothing except that great changes in human relationships will never come about in the form in which they have been anticipated.Johan Huizinga
These are strange times. Reason, which once combatted faith and seemed to have conquered it, now has to look to faith to save it from dissolution.
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History is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us.
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Revolution as an ideal concept always preserves the essential content of the original thought: sudden and lasting betterment.
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Every age yearns for a more beautiful world. The deeper the desperation and the depression about the confusing present, the more intense that yearning.
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