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Das Maschinenwerk der Revolutionen irret mich also nicht mehr: es ist unserm Geschlecht so nötig, wie dem Strom seine Wogen, damit er nicht ein stehender Sumpf werde. Immer verjüngt in neuen Gestalten, blüht der Genius der Humanität.
Vol. 1, p. 294; translation vol. 1, p. 416
Ideen zur Philosophie der Geschichte der Menschheit (1784-91)

Memoirs of Aga Khan: World Enough & Time (1954)
Source: Leisure, the Basis of Culture (1948), Leisure, the Basis of Culture, p. 27


“Never curse an illness; better ask for health.”
Aphorisms. Magnum in Parvo (2000)

“I never sleep, cause sleep is the cousin of death”
N.Y. State of Mind
On Albums, Illmatic (1994)

Source: The Big Sleep (1939), Chapter 32, Phillip Marlowe
Context: What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you. You just slept the big sleep, not caring about the nastiness of how you died or where you fell. Me, I was part of the nastiness now. Far more a part of it than Rusty Regan was. But the old man didn't have to be. He could lie quiet in his canopied bed, with his bloodless hands folded on the sheet, waiting. His heart was a brief, uncertain murmur. His thoughts were as gray as ashes. And in a little while he too, like Rusty Regan, would be sleeping the big sleep.

On one of his pseudonom, Gyakyo Rojin. He may have said the above in his late life definitely, since he began to use the name Gwakyo Rojin in 1843.
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HIStory: Past, Present & Future, Book I (1995)

“Youth is something very new: Twenty years ago no one mentioned it.”
As quoted in Coco Chanel : Her Life, Her Secrets (1971)

2000s, 2004, 2004 Video Broadcast on Al-Jazeera October 29

Rosa Park speech to social activists assembled in Washington, D.C. ( 1995) http://www.sweetspeeches.com/s/2316-rosa-parks-speech-at-the-million-man-march)

"No, it is not you I love so ardently..." (1841)
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