"History can't tell us. Each generation must define itself."

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Geoffrey Ward

#History Quotes #Generations Quotes

“One day they'll let you out of that dry, empty cell. You'll return to the Separates, and you'll feel the rain once more. And you'll grow straight, this time, toward this sunlight. I know you will.”
“It didn't make much difference what time of night it was, whenever [my father would] come in drunk, he'd say, "Get up and sing me some songs." We didn't want to sing but we sang.”
“Stay true to yourself because at the end of the day you can't lie to yourself.”
“To the great tree-loving fraternity we belong. We love trees with universal and unfeigned love, and all things that do grow under them or around them - the whole leaf and root tribe.”
“If you want to do something then be the best.”
“I've got quite a curvy shape so I try to wear stuff that's tailored.”
“I have formed the Mahendra Singh Dhoni Charitable Trust which organises cricket tournaments in Jharkhand to identify promising cricketers so that we can help groom them, either in India or abroad.”
“God is the Absolute Idea, a circle that returns upon itself, not a straight line projected indefinitely.”

Source : Joseph Alexander Leighton (1901). “Typical Modern Conceptions of God: Or, The Absolute of German Romantic Idealism and of English Evolutionary Agnosticism, with a Constructive Essay”

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