Famous quotes containing the words sed and/or history:
“Nota: man is the intelligence of his soil,
The sovereign ghost. As such, the Socrates
Of snails, musician of pears, principium
And lex. Sed quæritur: is this same wig
Of things, this nincompated pedagogue,
Preceptor to the sea?”
—Wallace Stevens (18791955)
“Revolutions are the periods of history when individuals count most.”
—Norman Mailer (b. 1923)
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