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“The past is our treasure. Its works, whether we know them or not, flourish in our lives with whatever strength they had. From it we draw provision for our journey, the collected wisdom whose harvests are all ours to reap and carry with us, though we may never live again in the fields that grew them.”

Knows May Past History Our Lives Journey Fields Grew Draws Treasure Harvest Provision Reap

Book:The Lycian Shore

Source: The Lycian Shore

“A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.”

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Book:Travels with Charley in Search of America

Source: Travels with Charley in Search of America

“Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.”

Art Philosophy Wisdom Change History Journey Conditions Movement Civilization Harbors Voyages

Author:Arnold J. Toynbee

“Chamberlain's stubborn, fanatical insistence on giving Hitler what he wanted, his trips to Berchtesgaden and Godesberg and finally the fateful journey to Munich rescued Hitler from his limb and strengthened his position in Europe, in Germany, in the Army, beyond anything that could have been imagined a few weeks before. It also added immeasurably to the power of the Third Reich vis-a-vis the Western democracies and the Soviet Union.”

Giving Has Beens Wanted History Journey Week Position Europe Thirds Army Germany Stubborn Limbs Could Have Been Nazism Insistence Nazi Germany Munich Chamberlain

Author:William L. Shirer

“If conquerors be regarded as the engine-drivers of History, then the conquerors of thought are perhaps the pointsmen who, less conspicuous to the traveler's eye, determine the direction of the journey.”

Ifs Eye History Journey Determine Drivers Engines Traveler Conqueror

Author:Arthur Koestler

“A recorded past is no more than a bygone present composed of the footprints made by human beings actually going somewhere but not knowing (in any extended sense), and certainly not revealing to us, how, they came to be afoot on these particular journeys.”

Humans Made Past Human Beings History Knowing Journey Particular Not Knowing Revealing Footprint

Author:Michael Joseph Oakeshott