"Happy is the nation without a history."

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Source : "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 368-69, Trattato dei Delitti e delle Pene, 1922.

Cesare Beccaria

“Our advanced and fashionable thinkers are, naturally, out on a wide swing of the pendulum, away from the previous swing of the pendulum.... They seem to have an un-argue-out-able position, as is the manner of sophists, but this is no guarantee that they are right.”
“I would like to do more feature work. I intend to do that. To be really honest, it's an economic thing because when you make a film that doesn't make what it cost back, it's very difficult to get back in the ring.”

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“I don't believe in typecasting. Just because all my characters may come from the other side of the tracks doesn't mean they are all the same. You don't stereotype people and generalize people, everyone's different.”
“I've always slightly regretted not taking up Chicago.”
“My strategy is that I actually have absolutely no strategy.”
“It's not those who write the laws that have the greatest impact on society. It's those who write the songs.”
“The capitalist class rules but does not govern: it contents itself with ruling the government.”
“High trees cast long shadows. The happier and more blessed a woman's life is, the more duz she feel for them that are less blessed than she.”

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