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When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find more hideous crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than have ever been committed in the name of rebellion.: C. P. Snow (1905 - 1980)
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Technology adds nothing to art. Two thousand years ago, I could tell you a story, and at any point during the story I could stop, and ask, Now do you want the hero to be kidnapped, or not? But that would, of course, have ruined the story. Part of the experience of being entertained is sitting back and plugging into someone else's vision.: Penn Jillette (1955 - ), Interview in WIRED magazine, 1993
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Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good.: Thomas Sowell (1930 - ), Is Reality Optional?, 1993
In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. That is what makes America what it is.: Gertrude Stein (1874 - 1946), The Geographical History of America (1936)
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If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.: Edward Gibbon (1737 - 1794)
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We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.: R. D. Laing
If we have learned one thing from the history of invention and discovery, it is that, in the long run - and often in the short one - the most daring prophecies seem laughably conservative.: Arthur C. Clarke (1917 - ), The Exploration of Space, 1951
Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience and rebellion that progress has been made.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Soul of Man Under Socialism
There's an old saying about those who forget history. I don't remember it, but it's good.: Stephen Colbert, The Colbert Report, March 10, 2008

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