"The bases for historical knowledge are not empirical facts but written texts, even if these texts masquerade in the guise of wars or revolutions."

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Source : Paul de Man (2013). “Blindness and Insight: Essays in the Rhetoric of Contemporary Criticism”, p.165, Routledge

Paul de Man

#War Quotes #Historical Quotes #Revolution Quotes

“Poor Lucas, always trying to protect me from danger. Heâ€™d never guessed that I was the dangerous one.”
“There's nothing like the discovery of an unknown work by a great thinker to set the intellectual community atwitter and cause academics to dart about like those things one sees when looking at a drop of water under a microscope.”
“Thereâ€™s one thing about Black Sabbath which should not be understated: If Black Sabbath is missing any one of its members itâ€™s no longer Black Sabbath.”
“I have knocked on the door of this man's soul and found someone home.”

Source : 2004 Republican National Convention Address, delivered 1 September 2004, Madison Square Garden, New York
“Greatness follows those who lead the way.”
“For nearly six thousand years, God has held you in reserve to make your appearance in the final days before the Second Coming of the Lord. . . . God has saved for the finalinning some of His strongest and most valiant children, who will help bear off the kingdom triumphantly. That is where you come in, for you are the generation that must be prepared to meet your God. . . .”
“The living room is a monument to my impulsive spending habits. I've got more than two hundred DVDs, including cinematic greats such as Monkey Bone, Corkey Romano, and A Night at the Roxbury, leading me to believe not only do I have awful taste in films, but I also have a Chris Kattan fixation. What I don't have is $4000 earing intrest in a money market account.”
“There's all these ways to instantly communicate - cars, computers, telephone and transportation - and even with all that, it's so hard to find people and have an honest communication with them”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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