"Women are treated as unjustly in poetry as in life. The feminine ones are not idealistic, and the idealistic not feminine."
-Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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"The German national character is a favorite subject of character experts, probably because the less mature a nation, the more she is an object of criticism and not of history.“
-Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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"Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry."
-Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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"Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form."
-Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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"A priest is he who lives solely in the realm of the invisible, for whom all that is visible has only the truth of an allegory."
-Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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"What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures."
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"Religion can emerge in all forms of feeling: here wild anger, there the sweetest pain here consuming hatred, there the childlike smile of serene humility."
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"Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers."
-Carlos Fuentes
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"If I had been elected president in 1948, history would be vastly different. I believe we would have stemmed the growth of Big Government, which had begun with the New Deal and culminated with the Great Society."
-Strom Thurmond
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"For most of our history, Americans enjoyed both liberty and security from foreign threats."
-Harry Browne
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"There is nothing glorious about what our ancestors call history. It is simply a succession of mistakes, intolerances and violations."
-Claude Vorilhon
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"This is a good time to ask apologists for the Islamic regime, who degrades Islam? Who imposes stoning, forced marriage of underage girls and flogging for not wearing the veil? Do such practices represent Iran's ancient history and culture, its ethnic and religious diversity? Its centuries of sensual and subversive poetry?"
-Azar Nafisi
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"What would be the nicest thing I could say about Newt Gingrich? He may be one of the great supporters of the humanities, because you have people who don't want to study the social sciences, because it's not profitable, and now Newt, as the highest-paid historian in American history, may be an encouragement to people to study history."
-Barney Frank
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