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«This socialism will develop in all its phases until it reaches its own extremes and absurdities. Then once again a cry of denial will break from the titanic chest of the revolutionary minority and again a mortal struggle will begin, in which socialism will play the role of contemporary conservatism and will be overwhelmed in the subsequent revolution, as yet unknown to us.»
Author: Alexander Herzen
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«The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated in a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap.»
«The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.»
«What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it.»
Author: Sir Walter Scott
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Historian,
Novelist,
Poet)
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«What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real.»
«The grand delusion of contemporary liberals is that they have both the right and the ability to move their fellow creatures around like blocks of wood - and that the end results will be no different than if people had voluntarily chosen the same acti»