"History can predict nothing except that great changes in human relationships will never come about in the form in which they have been anticipated."

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Source : "In the Shadow of Tomorrow". Book by Johan Huizinga, Ch. 20, 1936.

Johan Huizinga

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“I'm less worried about accomplishment - as younger people always can't help but be - and more concerned with spending my time well, spending time with my family, and reading, learning things.”
“I work a lot in the summers. My family goes to Maine, where we have a little house. My wife's a writer, too, and we can write for six hours a day and then play with the kids.”

Source : "Ben Marcus: 'Writing has to earn people's interest'". Interview with Killian Fox, www.theguardian.com. June 16, 2012.
“The idea that feeling confident and feeling misunderstood are mutually exclusive really bugs me.”
“A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.”
“When you get to say something in a song you're not directing it necessarily at one person. When it's in a song it's easier to get it out. I don't really worry so much about it when I'm writing a song.”
“If it is right for men to fight for their freedom, and God knows what the human race would be like today if men had not, since time began, fought for their freedom, then it is right for women to fight for their freedom and the freedom of the children they bear.”

Source : Emmeline Pankhurst (2015). “My Own Story: Top Biography”, p.146, 谷月社
“I think people involved with institutions find it harder to know the time to go than the time to come.”

Source : Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. September 26, 2005.
“Go for greatness. Anything else is a waste of time.”

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