"History needs distance, perspective. Facts and events which are too well attested cease, in some sort, to be malleable."

-- Joseph Joubert

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“There are in every age new errors to be rectified and new prejudices to be opposed.”
“Our children that die young are like those spring bulbs which have their flowers prepared beforehand, and leave nothing to do but to break ground, and blossom, and pass away. Thank God for spring flowers among men, as well as among the grasses of the field.”
“My idea of heaven is a place where the Tyne meets the Delta, where folk music meets the blues.”
“If you believe in evolution and naturalism then you have a reason not to think your faculties are reliable.”
“Look to see what you are doing today. Is this how you choose to define yourself? Look to see what you are thinking today. Is this what you wish to create?”
“"Read Euler: he is our master in everything."”
“The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.”

Source : Second Inaugural Address, 20 Jan. 1937
“Freedom is the very essence of life, the impelling force in all intellectual and social development, the creator of every new outlook for the future of mankind. The liberation of man from economic exploitation and from intellectual and political oppression, which finds its finest expression in the world-philosophy of Anarchism, is the first prerequisite for the evolution of a higher social culture and a new humanity.”

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