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By clock on August 18, 2008.

Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.

- Gustave Flaubert

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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times. - Gustave Flaubert

Apparently 65% of Britons have lied about reading certain books in an effort to impress others. The top ten books not read but claimed to have been read were: 1984 - George Orwell (42 percent) War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy (31) Ulysses - James Joyce (25) The Bible (24) Madame Bovary - Gustave…

Be regular and orderly in your daily affairs that you may be violent and original in your work. - Gustave Flaubert

Sorry, Donald Trump, It Can't Be Infinity (Synopsis)

“There are two infinities that confuse me: the one in my soul devours me; the one around me will crush me” -Gustave Flaubert Last week, Donald Trump restored the National Space Council, promising to take America and the world to new heights in space. He also made some statements claiming that this…

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At bottom every man know well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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