"The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice."

-- Mark Twain

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“The new education must consist essentially in this, that it completely destroys freedom of will in the soil which it undertakes to cultivate, and produces on the contrary strict necessity in the decisions of the will, the opposite being impossible. Such a will can henceforth be relied on with confidence and certainty.”

Source : Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1968). “Addresses to the German nation”
“A happy man has no past, while an unhappy man has nothing else.”

Source : Richard Flanagan (2014). “The Narrow Road to the Deep North: A novel”, p.14, Vintage
“Here she comes now, say, Mony, Mony. Shoot 'em down, turn around, come on, Mony.”
“I'm like a weird actor. I feel like I'm vastly uneducated when it comes to the cinema.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“No one plays this or any game perfectly. It's the guy who recovers from his mistakes who wins.”
“Story has a mind of its own and tells things sometimes it might have preferred us not to know. Stories operate like dreams; both veil what is to be uncovered, neither is capable of the coverup.”
“That old adage, that "music is a universal language", is really true. Even if all of the lyrics are understood, they seem to connect with it really well and in some ways, more so.”
“Maybe it's good to put things in perspective, but sometimes, I think that the only perspective is to really be there.”

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