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pentateuch read in 04/03/2024- the language of kjv was generally pretty good & quite beautiful or striking at times. genesis was definitely the most fascinating book. jacob strikes me as an odysseus figure. josephs story in egypt was really emotional
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“Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under circumstances existing already, given and transmitted from the past.”
― The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte
― The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte
“The only historian capable of fanning the spark of hope in the past is the one who is firmly convinced that even the dead will not be safe from the enemy if he is victorious.”
― On the Concept of History
― On the Concept of History
“I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.”
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“For this feeling of wonder shows that you are a philosopher, since wonder is the only beginning of philosophy.”
― Theaetetus
― Theaetetus
“The time is out of joint—O cursèd spite,
That ever I was born to set it right!”
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That ever I was born to set it right!”
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