"All these young minds the revolution has heated up and brought to flower before their time, before their age."

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“All these philosophers are no more than surgeons.”

“In such times, if you want neither to lie nor to wound, you are reduced to being silent.”

“Fortunately, when he lacks reason he also lacks words.”

“Stars more beautiful to the eyes than the telescope that robs them of their illusions.”

“The punishment of those who have loved women too much is to love them forever.”

“Of what must be said and what must not be said. The importance of knowing.”

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— Harry Turtledove

Literature1949

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— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Philosophy1770–1831

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— George C. Marshall

Military1880–1959

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— Chen Shih-chung

1941

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