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”There are no simple lessons in history, that it is human nature that repeats itself, not history.”
Joined September 2022
“Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.” -Francis Bacon (1560-1626), English philosopher #hope Photo: Taymazvalley
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"To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering" -Friedrich Nietzsche Photo: Czesława Kwoka, German concentration camp victim, 1942. 📷Wilhelm Brasse
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“Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.” ― Winston S. Churchill Photo: Joseph Stalin, Franklin D Roosevelt and Winston Churchill, in Teheran, 1943.
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"My mom told me a long time ago, 'Never get in a fight with a lady." -Oliver North (born 1943) is an American political commentator and retired United States Marine Corps lieutenant colonel.
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"A tattoo is graffiti on the temple of the body." Gordon Hinckley (1910 – 2008), American religious leader Photo: Miguel Discart The International Brussels Tattoo Convention, 2022.
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"When everything is easy one quickly gets stupid." -Maxim Gorky (1868-1936), Russian/Soviet writer and proponent of socialism. Photo: Jennifer Granholm President Biden signs the Inflation Reduction Act into law, 2022.
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A Warning from History. A year after WW1 ended, A French Pilot, Jacques Trolley de Prévaux, flew an Airship from the Belgian coast to the devastated battlefields of France where millions died. Lost for decades this is part of what he saw remastered in color and HD.
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"History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools." -Ambrose Bierce Nobel Peace Prize ceremony 2009.
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"All you need for a movie is a gun and a girl." -Jean-Luc Godard ( 1930 – 2022), French and Swiss film director, screenwriter, and film critic Photo: Ted Van Pelt
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"A nation that forgets its past can function no better than an individual with amnesia." -David McCullough (1933-2022), American popular historian, the winner of both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. Photo: Tacc "Friends" 2021.
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“True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.” -Kurt Vonnegut, American novelist, satirist Photo: FinnishGovernment Sanna Marin and Justin Trudeau, 2022
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"I never trust a fighting man who doesnt smoke or drink." -William "Bull" Halsey Jr. (1882 – 1959), American Navy admiral during World War II. He is one of four officers to have attained the rank of five-star fleet admiral of the United States Navy.
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“The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.” ― Ernest Hemingway Photo: Wesley Fryer
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“Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.” ― Winston S. Churchill Photo: Joseph Stalin, Franklin D Roosevelt and Winston Churchill, in Teheran, 1943.
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“A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.” ― Oscar Wilde Photo: Jebulon. German military cemetery, Normandy, France.
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"I really admire a woman for her intelligence, her personality. Beauty is not enough." -Roberto Cavalli (1940 – 2024), Italian fashion designer Photo: Charlie Chu
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"Show me someone who never gossips, and I will show you someone who is not interested in people." -Barbara Walters (1929 – 2022), American broadcast journalist and television personality Photo: Gossip or Washing Day, 1885. Oil on canvas. John William Waterhouse (1849–1917) 🏴
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