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JF Old Timer
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Posts: 130
Join Date: Jul 2011
Location: The Netherlands
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09-11-2011, 11:19 PM
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What experience and history teach is this -- that people and governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles.
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- George Wilhelm Hegel
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Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.
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- Plato
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Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.
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- Aristotle
He drew a circle that shut me out --
Heretic, rebel, a thing to flout.
But love and I had the wit to win:
We drew a circle that took him in.
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