"History, well taught, is the demythologising of the past... Take any important issue of our time - Northern Ireland, Nuclear Disarmament, Race, The Welfare State, South Africa - and it becomes impossible to seriously confront any of them without understanding their historical background."

-- Alan Bullock

#Past Quotes #Race Quotes #Nuclear Disarmament Quotes

“I know that I was hiking at a very young age because I remember being convinced that it was the trees that were talking.”

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“If you fall, get back up. That's what life is about.”
“South Africans will kick down a statue of a dead white man but won’t even attempt to slap a live one. Yet they can stone to death a black man simply because he’s a foreigner”
“The new children are coming in. The families do not understand them. It does appear, from all the research that people are doing, that the new children are healing their mother and father by their very presence. So they may do it themselves, but, still, we've got to change what's happened here - our families are just total disasters.”

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“Falling in love with a house or a car or a pair of shoes, it was a dead end. You save your love for the things that can love you back.”

Source : David Wong (2012). “This Book Is Full of Spiders: Seriously, Dude, Don't Touch It”, p.226, Macmillan
“A day will come when markets, open to trade, and minds, open to ideas, will become the sole battlefield.”
“If you wonder how you'll get through this new heartbreak, just think back. Remember all you've been through in the past. And how each time you swore, you'd never get through it. But you did. And look where you're at now. This too shall pass!”
“During my 8 years as chairman, I had the privilege to peer into the future to see dynamic citizen astronauts returning to and from the heavens which we can expect in the future.”

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