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Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.


Benjamin Disraeli

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RALPH WALDO EMERSON No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
THOMAS CARLYLE The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
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RON RASH Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
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PHILIP ROTH What is life? Life is a theory itself. Nothing more, nothing less. Life is simply just an illusion.
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LOUIS FISCHER I can find my biography in every fable that I read
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MICHAEL HASTINGS Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
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R.K. NARAYAN Without revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement.
VLADIMIR LENIN Without Revolutionary theory, there can be no Revolutionary Movement.
VLADIMIR LENIN Life is doubt,
And faith without doubt is nothing but death.
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JOHN WATERS Life is nothing without friendship.
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KATE FLEETWOOD However much you are read in theory, if thou hast no practice thou art ignorant
MUSLIH-UDDIN SADI Life is the precious seed that births death, for without life there will be no death.
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ASHLEY TOWNES Do nothing which is of no use.
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