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Mea culpa; suivi de la vie et l'oeuvre de Semmelweis (1937)
Speech at the Opening of the Bandung Conference
Message for the new millennium (31 December 1999) http://www.4english.cn/speeches/Annan.htm
Source: Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle (1960), p. 33
Context: Naturally, every age thinks that all ages before it were prejudiced, and today we think this more than ever and are just as wrong as all previous ages that thought so. How often have we not seen the truth condemned! It is sad but unfortunately true that man learns nothing from history.
“In the United States today, we have more than our share of the nattering nabobs of negativism.”
Speech in San Diego (11 September 1970).
Agnew's signature quip against everything perceived to be liberal, particularly the media at that time.
“In the United States today, we have more than our share of the nattering nabobs of negativism.”
Speech written by Safire for Spiro Agnew (11 September 1970).
Letter to H. R. Haldeman
Source: Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle (1960), p. 33
"The Return of the Primitive" http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,984031,00.html, TIME magazine (29 January 1996)
1990s, 1996
Source: Bright Star: Love Letters and Poems of John Keats to Fanny Brawne
“Wit lasts no more than two centuries.”
Le même esprit ne dure que deux cents ans.
Letter to Honoré de Balzac (30 October 1840)
