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Category Archives: History
Retro Quote – Sylvia Plath
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Retro Quote – John Vance Cheney
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Retro Quote – Virginia Woolf
“If you do not tell the truth about yourself, you cannot tell it about other people.”
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Retro Quote – Anaïs Nin
“It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.”
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Retro Quote – Chinua Achebe
“The world is like a mask dancing. If you want to see it well, you do not stand in one place.”
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Retro Quote – Bernard Williams
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Retro Quote – Rainer Maria Rilke
“Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final.”
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Retro Quote – Harry S. Truman
“Socialism is a scare word they have hurled at every advance the people have made in the last 20 years. Socialism is what they called public power. Socialism is what they called social security. Socialism is what they called farm price supports. Socialism is what they called bank deposit insurance. Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations. Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people. When the Republican candidate inscribes the slogan ‘Down with Socialism’ on the banner of his “great crusade”, that is really not what he means at all. What he really means is ‘Down with Progress, down with Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal,’ and ‘Down with Harry Truman’s Fair Deal.’ That’s all he means.”
Harry S Truman, Syracuse, New York, October 10, 1952
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Retro Quote – Eugene V. Debs
“The feudal barons of the Middle Ages, the economic predecessors of the capitalists of our day, declared all wars. And their miserable serfs fought all the battles. The poor, ignorant serfs had been taught to revere their masters; to believe that when their masters declared war upon one another, it was their patriotic duty to fall upon one another and to cut one another’s throats for the profit and glory of the lords and barons who held them in contempt.”
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