"The use of history is to tell us what we are, for at our birth we are nearly empty vessels and we become what our tradition pours into us."

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Learned Hand

#History Quotes #Use Quotes #Birth Quotes

“I'm pretty sure my house in Florida is haunted! He's a nice ghost though.”
“Now I no longer live in our clear, rational world; I live in the ancient nightmare world, the world of square roots of minus one.”
“You want to know who owns America? A few at the top. And they've got one thing on their mind. No change. Look at Obama, all that hope and promise. No change. He went to Wall Street, had a fundraiserâ€”$35,800 a ticketâ€”and you know who the host was? Goldman friggin' Sachs.”
“Mediocrity cherishes rules; as for me, I hate them; I feel for them and for every restriction, corporation, caste, hierarchy, level, herd, a loathing which fills my soul, and it is in this respect perhaps that I understand martyrdom.”
“For a man who has done his natural duty, death is as natural as sleep.”
“To control your hormones is to control your life.”
“People think the camera steals their soul. Places, I am convinced, are affected in the opposite direction. The more they are photographed (or drawn and painted) the more soul they seem to accumulate.”

Source : John Pfahl (1997). “Permutations on the picturesque”
“O Music! Miraculous art! A blast of thy trumpet and millions rush forward to die; a peal of thy organ and uncounted nations sink down to pray.”

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