“Time after time, history ran over the luddites and romanticists, those who sought to restore the old and delay the new. And every time, history did it with faster, more reliable and more advanced vehicles.”

— Winston S. Churchill, book A History of the English-Speaking Peoples

On the Luddites ; Vol II: The New World, p. 121
A History of the English-Speaking Peoples (1956–58)

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“This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, the more they possess.”

Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926) Austrian poet and writer

“No new temple was allowed to be built nor any old one to be repaired, so that the total disappearance of all places of Hindu worship was to be merely a question of time. But even this delay, this slow operation of Time, was intolerable to many of the more fiery spirits of Islam, who tried to hasten the abolition of ‘infidelity’ by anticipating the destructive hand of Time and forcibly pulling down temples.”

Jadunath Sarkar (1870–1958) Indian historian

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“Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.”

Joseph Campbell (1904–1987) American mythologist, writer and lecturer

“History of the New York Times, 1851-1921. Contributors: Elmer Davis - author. Publisher: New York Times.”

Elmer Davis (1890–1958) American politician

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“I made history and therefore did not find time to write it.”

Klemens von Metternich (1773–1859) Austrian diplomat

Klemens von Metternich, “Mein Politisches Testament”, Aus Metternich’s Nachgelassenen Papieren, 7.Bd, hrsg., R. Metternich-Winneburg (Wien: Wilhelm Braumüller, 1883, pp.633-642.

“He did not waste time in a vain search for a place in history.”

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“I refer of course to the soaring wonder of the age known as the Eiffel Tower. Never in history has a structure been more technologically advanced, materially obsolescent, and gloriously pointless all at the same time.”

Bill Bryson book At Home: A Short History of Private Life

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“Time after time, history ran over the luddites and romanticists, those who sought to restore the old and delay the new. And every time, history did it with faster, more reliable and more advanced vehicles.”

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