"History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided."

-- Konrad Adenauer

#Government Quotes #History Quotes #Historical Quotes

“I love the French detective series 'Spiral.' It's quite brutal to watch, but I'm already hooked.”
“For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resign'd, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing ling'ring look behind?”
“I must stop him from being one of those who call themselves good because they have no claws.”
“A poet is a time mechanic not an embalmer.”

Source : Jack Spicer (2010). “My Vocabulary Did This to Me: The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer”, p.196, Wesleyan University Press
“He who helps destroy the boll-weevil has done as constructive work as he who plants the seed.”

Source : Rupert Hughes (1940). “Why I Quit Going to Church: With Answers to Critics and Correspondents”
“Pure drawing is an abstraction.”
“You show me a successful complex system, and I will show you a system that has evolved through trial and error.”
“I did theatrical caricatures.”

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