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Must, bid the Morn awake! Sad Winter now declines, Each bird doth choose a mate; This day's Saint Valentine's. For that good bishop's sake Get up and let us see What beauty it shall be That Fortune us assigns.: Michael Drayton (1563 - 1631)
A scrupulous writer, in every sentence that he writes, will ask himself at least four questions, thus: 1. What am I trying to say? 2. What words will express it? 3. What image or idiom will make it clearer? 4. Is this image fresh enough to have an effect?: George Orwell (1903 - 1950), "Politics and the English Language", 1946
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Political language -- and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists -- is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.: George Orwell (1903 - 1950), "Politics and the English Language", 1946
As the archaeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end.: Michel Foucault (1926 - 1984)
To give an accurate description of what has never occurred is not merely the proper occupation of the historian, but the inalienable privilege of any man of parts and culture.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Critic as Artist
The past always looks better than it was; it's only pleasant because it isn't here.: Finley Peter Dunne (1867 - 1936)
Nothing changes more constantly than the past; for the past that influences our lives does not consist of what actually happened, but of what men believe happened.: Gerald White Johnson, American Heroes and Hero-Worships, Chapter 1
Men cling passionately to old traditions and display intense reluctance to modify customary modes of behavior, as innovators at all times have found to their cost. The dead-weight of conservatism, largely a lazy and cowardly distaste for the strenuous and painful activity of real thinking, has undoubtedly retarded human progress...: V. Gordon Childe, Man Makes Himself, p. 31
The passions are the only orators that always persuade.: Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
The past slips from our grasp. It leaves us only scattered things. The bond that united them eludes us. Our imagination usually fills in the void by making use of preconceived theories...Archaeology, then, does not supply us with certitudes, but rather with vague hypotheses. And in the shade of these hypotheses some artists are content to dream, considering them less as scientific facts than as sources of inspiration.: Igor Stravinsky (1882 - 1971), Poetics of Music in the Form - Six Lessons

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