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"The history of the Jewish land is as little the history of the Jewish people as the history of the States of the Church is that of the Catholics; it is just as requisite to separate the two as to consider them together."
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🇪🇪Mati Sirkel
Literature
b. 1949
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🇺🇸Robert L. Kahn
Literature
1923–1970
"Associated with each office is a set of activities, which are defined as potential behaviors. These activities constitute the role to be performed, at least approximately, by any person who occupies that office."
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Theodor Mommsen
Science
1817–1903
"Revolutions have nowhere ended, and least of all in ROme, without demanding a certain number of victims, who under forms more or less borrowed from justice atone fro the fault of defeat as though it were a crime."
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🇮🇹Vittore Pisani
Education
1899–1990
"The Macedonian language is actually an artifact produced for primarily political reasons."
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🇮🇹Ferruccio Masini
Literature
1928–1988
"Cultura per le masse? Una contradictio in adjectis."
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🇮🇹Fausto Cercignani
Literature
b. 1941
"“Studia austriaca” and “Studia theodisca"
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Notable Quotes
"The belief that it is useless to employ partial and palliative means against radical evils, because they only remedy them in part, is an article of faith never preached unsuccessfully by meanness to simplicity, but it is none the less absurd."
— Theodor Mommsen, b. 1817View →
"Revolutions have nowhere ended, and least of all in ROme, without demanding a certain number of victims, who under forms more or less borrowed from justice atone fro the fault of defeat as though it were a crime."
— Theodor Mommsen, b. 1817View →
"An independent state does not pay too dear for its independence in accepting the sufferings of war when it cannot avoid them"
— Theodor Mommsen, b. 1817View →
"Mankind have infinite difficulty in reaching new creations, and therefore cherish the once developed forms as sacred heirlooms."
— Theodor Mommsen, b. 1817View →
"The czech skull is impervious to reason, but it is scuceptible to blows."
— Theodor Mommsen, b. 1817View →