Samuel E. Morison Quotes
Every historian with professional standards speaks or writes what he believes to be true.
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There are no benefactors in Canada because there is no incentive.
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A purpose of our lives is to broaden what we can understand and say and therefore be.
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Perhaps things are not things but words: metaphors, words for other things.
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Life's full of lots of dream-stealers always telling you you need to do something more sensible. I think it doesn't matter what your dream is, just fight the dream-stealers and hold onto it.
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I could not disobey the will of the Catalan parliament.
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I've always dreamed of having an album. The problem is that it's just very difficult to make an album nowadays because through technology, music shifts so fast, especially electronic music. Once you make five songs, the first one you did is already old and you wished you would have put it out right away. So that's kind of the difficult part.
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The mob spirit has grown with the increasing intelligence of the Afro-American.
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I'm completely in love with the idea of love.
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I don't believe in an outside agent that creates the world, then walks away. But I feel very strongly there is an intelligence at work in every flower, in every blade of grass, in every cell of my body. And it is that intelligence that, I wouldn't say created the universe. It is creating the universe. It's an ongoing process.
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Israel has a security concern involving geography. But geography does not have the same value it did in 1967.
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I'm really close to my family, and we talk through things. My parents are so amazing, they're brilliant. We try to take one step at a time and be wise about the decisions we make and keep our values and the things that are important.
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Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
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I adore Bette Davis and Vivien Leigh, but more because they were good actresses. That's what makes me interested in them, that they didn't present themselves as idols; they were just doing their jobs.
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Is it written that equality between men and women means one can change sex? Obviously not.
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Food is my favourite thing in the world. I always say if I ate what I actually wanted to eat I'd be in one of those electronic scooters because I'd be too big.
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The Amex has a long, often troubled, sometimes glorious history.
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I work a lot of hours, and in this business you really try to keep as busy as you possibly can. Sometimes when you really focus on kids in your free time you lose the husband and wife relationship to some degree. It's been a real focus for us to make sure we stay focused on us two.
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I'm tired of being lied to by government, by the media, and by every corporation I have anything to do with.
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I like to get real pretty.
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Whenever anyone calls me 'The new J..K. Rowling,' I think, 'What's wrong with the old one?'
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The town horse, used to gaudy trappings, no doubt despises the work of his country brother; but yet, now and again, there comes upon him a sudden desire to plough.
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I meet a lot of people after shows, and I have to say it's pretty intense.
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Christianity...made, for nearly 1,500 years, persecution, religious wars, massacres, theological feuds and bloodshed, heresy huntings and heretic burnings, prisons, dungeons, anathemas, curses, opposition to science, hatred of liberty, spiritual bondage, the life without love or laughter.
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Every historian with professional standards speaks or writes what he believes to be true.
