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"History repeats itself because nobody listens." -
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Josh Billings
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"I have lived in this world just long enough to look carefully the second time into things that I am most certain of the first time."
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"As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand."
"What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? I suppose this depends somewhat upon the size of the soul. I think there are cases where the trade would do."
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"Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one has not time to write down."
"Any great work of art revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world -- the extent to which it invites you in and lets you breathe its strange, special air."
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