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I think it is vital to fight to do something you want to do despite not gaining your community's or your friends' approval.

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Jacob Burckhardt

In history the way of annihilation is invariably prepared by inward degeneration, by decrease of life. Only then can a shock from outside put an end to the whole.

Inward, Shock, Society, Way, Whole
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Only the fairy tale equates changelessness with happiness. . . Permanence means paralysis and death. Only, in movement, with all its pain, is life.

Change, Death, Happiness, Life, Pain

History is on every occasion the record of that which one age finds worthy of note in another.

Age, History, Record, Records, Society

To each eye, perhaps, the outlines of a great civilization present a different picture. In the wide ocean upon which we venture, the possible ways and directions are many; and the same studies which have served for my work might easily, in other hands, not only receive a wholly different treatment and application, but lead to essentially different conclusions.

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The essence of tyranny is the denial of complexity.

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The biggest mischief in the past century has been perpetrated by Rousseau with his doctrine of the goodness of human nature. The mob and the intellectuals derived from it the vision of a Golden Age which would arrive without fail once the noble human race could act according to its whims.

Arrive, Noble, Past, Race, Vision
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