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“Director Ken Burns revealed that his next documentary is about Franklin Roosevelt, and it's fourteen hours long...which sounds like too much, until you realize there's been over thirty hours of TV dedicated to Honey Boo Boo.”

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Author:Jimmy Fallon

“If, then, this civilization is to be saved, if it is not to be submerged by centuries of barbarism, but to secure the treasures ofits inheritance on new and more stable foundations, there is indeed need for those now living fully to realize how far the decay has already progressed.”

“He who wishes to maintain that the past of mankind no longer has any absolute value in lifemust also be ready to deny his ownlife until the present moment, indeed in advance until the last moment, as worthless. He who realizes that culture is the giving of form will also see that the highest forms that it is given to the human spirit to recognize have always been, psychologically considered, such evasions from the present. Considerations such as these do not at all square with the direction of America's mind.”

“One does not realize the historical sensation as a re-experiencing, but as an understanding that is closely related to the understanding of music, or rather of the world by means of music.”

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Book:Men and Ideas: History, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance

Source: Men and Ideas: History, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance

“It sounds funny to say, but we saw [Kate's wedding to Prince William] as just a family wedding. And actually, I didn't realize - perhaps - the scale of it until afterwards. We all took on the roles as any family would.”

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Author:Pippa Middleton

“Few men realize that their life, the very essence of their character, their capabilities and their audacities, are only the expression of their belief in the safety of their surroundings.”

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Book:Joseph Conrad The Dover Reader

Source: Joseph Conrad The Dover Reader

“It is a great pity that every human being does not, at an early stage of his life, have to write a historical work. He would then realize that the human race is in quite a jam about truth.”

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Author:Rebecca West

“All truly historical peoples have an idea they must realize, and when they have sufficiently exploited it at home, they export it, in a certain way, by war; they make it tour the world.”

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Author:Victor Cousin

“It is thus necessary that the individual should finally come to realize that his own ego is of no importance in comparison with the existence of the nation, that the position of the individual is conditioned solely by the interests of the nation as a whole.”

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Book:Adolf Hitler from Speeches 1933-1938

Source: Adolf Hitler from Speeches 1933-1938

“There is nothing truer than myth: history, in its attempt to realize myth, distorts it, stops halfway; when history claims to have succeeded, this is nothing but humbug and mystification. Everything we dream is realizable. Reality does not have to be: it is simply what it is.”

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Author:Eugene Ionesco

“To know the truth of history is to realize its ultimate myth and its inevitable ambiguity.”

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Book:A Touchstone for Greatness: Essays, Addresses, and Occasional Pieces about Abraham Lincoln

Source: A Touchstone for Greatness: Essays, Addresses, and Occasional Pieces about Abraham Lincoln