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If the historian will be faithful to the photograph, the photograph will be faithful to history.

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Horace

Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets' being second-rate.

Gods, Men, Poetry, Poets, Rate

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It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity

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Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.

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A word once let out of the cage cannot be whistled back again.

Cage, Cages, Let, Whistled, Wisdom, Wise

It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say; when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar - that I call an achievement.

Art, Liar, Liars, Like, Lying, Writes

Never despair. [Nil desperandum. ]

Despair, Desperandum, Nil

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The world that birthed that story is long gone, all its people are dead, but it continues to touch the present and future because someone cared enough about that world to keep it. To put it in words. To remember it.

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Merlin Stone

Merlin Stone

It is difficult to grasp the immensity and significance of the extreme reverence paid to the Goddess over a period of (at least) seven thousand years and over miles of land cutting across national boundaries and vast expanses of sea. Yet it is vital to do just that to fully comprehend the longevity as well as the widespread power and influence this religion once held.

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Francis James Grimke

Race prejudice can't be talked down, it must be lived down.

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Beaumont Newhall

If the historian will be faithful to the photograph, the photograph will be faithful to history.

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Ben Aaronovitch

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My dad once told me that the secret to a happy life was never to start something with a girl unless you were willing to follow wherever it led. It's the best piece of advice he has ever given me, and probably the reason I was born.

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