"If we do not learn from history, we shall be compelled to relive it. True. But if we do not change the future, we shall be compelled to endure it. And that could be worse."

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Source : Alvin Toffler (1972). “The futurists”, Random House (NY)

Alvin Toffler

#Change Quotes #Endure Quotes

“It is only in the case of the Priestly Code that opinions differ widely; for it tries hard to imitate the costume of the Mosaic period, and, with whatever success, to disguise its own.”

Source : Julius Wellhausen (2013). “Prolegomena to the History of Israel: With a Reprint of the Article 'Israel' from the Encyclopaedia Britannica”, p.9, Cambridge University Press
“To stay interested in acting, I have to keep trying stuff I've never done before.”
“We are taught that the body is an ignorant animal intelligence dwells only in the head. But the body is smart. It does not discern between external stimuli and stimuli from the imagination. It reacts equally viscerally to events from the imagination as it does to real events.”
“The individual disposition is already a factor in childhood; it is innate, and not acquired in the course of a life.”
“People who believe they have bad luck create bad luck. Those who believe they are very fortunate, that the world is a generous place filled with trustworthy people, live in exactly that kind of world.”

Source : Chris Prentiss (2007). “The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure: A Holistic Approach to Total Recovery”, p.124, BookBaby
“Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils. (Le temps est un grand maÃ®tre, dit-on; le malheur est qu'il soit un maÃ®tre inhumain qui tue ses Ã©lÃ¨ves.)”
“I think film and television are really a director's medium, whereas theatre is the actor's medium.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“As the eye naturally seeks the light and vision, and our body naturally desires food and drink, so our mind is possessed with a becoming and natural desire to become acquainted with the truth of God and the causes of things.”

Source : Origen (2012). “The Sacred Writings of Origen (Annotated Edition)”, p.158, Jazzybee Verlag

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