"It is little enough we know and the rest is darkness."

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Source : Hendrik Willem van Loon, Robert Sullivan (2013). “The Story of Mankind (Updated) (Liveright Classics)”, p.12, W. W. Norton & Company

Hendrik Willem van Loon

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“Zis and zat' when uttered by the French is considered charming, but 'dis and dat' as an Africanism is ridiculed as gross and ugly.”
“Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.”
“Everything must be recaptured and relocated in the general framework of history, so that despite the difficulties, the fundamental paradoxes and contradictions, we may respect the unity of history which is also the unity of life.”

Source : Fernand Braudel (1982). “On History”, p.16, University of Chicago Press
“It was cool to feel this global electronic thing happening. But it just got to be too much at a certain point.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“No one has ever died, from an overexposure to education.”
“Settling other people's land is an American tradition.”
“What do prisoners do? Write, of course; even if they have to use blood as ink, as the Marquis de Sade did. The reasons they write, the exquisitely frustrating restrictions of their autonomy and the fact that no one listens to their cries, are all the reasons that mentally ill people, and even many normal people write. We write to escape our prisons.”
“The unemployed, poverty-stricken white man must be made to realize that he is in the very same boat with the Negro. Together, they could exert massive pressure on the government to get jobs for all. Together, they could form a grand alliance. Together, they could merge all people for the good of all.”

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