James G. Frazer Quotes
But once a fool always a fool, and the greater the power in his hands the more disastrous is likely to be the use he makes of it. The heaviest calamity in English history, the breach with America, might never have occurred if George the Third had not been an honest dullard.
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When I was travelling in Rajasthan people were waving hands, and it felt like I was visiting my own constituency.
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I dropped out of the business for 8 years, and I taught English as a second language. Then I decided to go back to acting, and I got 'Mad Men'.
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I taught English and history, so my education for that really helped prepare me for writing historical fiction.
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I think that every so-called history book and film biography should be prefaced by the statement that what follows is the author's rendition of events and circumstances.
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Radical thought has inspired many of the great political and social reform movements in American history, from ending slavery to establishing the minimum wage.
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I often wonder what I will be remembered in history for. Scholar? Military hero? Builder?
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There's a lot of history in Boston and a lot of history, obviously, in New York with all the championships.
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I have a Ph.D. in cell biology. And that's really manual labor. I mean, experimental science, you do it with your hands. So it's very different. You're out there in a lab, cleaning test tubes, and it just wasn't that fascinating.
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The most frightening pages of history are those which reveal how easily conditions making a desert of the human spirit may come into existence, with the oozings away of incentive and kindliness in our natural social structure.
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Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.
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In a typical history book, black Americans are mentioned in the context of slavery or civil rights. There's so much more to the story.
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It's not that I don't like American pop; I'm a huge admirer of it, but I think my roots came from a very English and Irish base. Is it all sort of totally non-American sounding, do you think?
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The air of the English is down-to-earth. They care about details; there's a tradition, but there's also a counter-culture: the younger generation versus the older generation and so on. But then that's well blended into a happy balance and crystallised into common sense.
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One of the great defects of English books printed in the last century is the want of an index.
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My fate is in the hands of almighty Allah.
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This object that we hold in our hands, a book... that tactile pleasure, it's just not going to go away.
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I've dubbed for my roles in Hindi, English, and Italian. Therefore, I'm used to the process. But, dubbing is hard, especially when you are dubbing for a prominent actor.
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I have a long view of history - my orientation is archaeological because I'm always thinking in terms of ancient Greece and Rome, ancient Persia and Egypt.
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When it comes to certain portions of our history, we've just forgotten it all.
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Unity and secularism will be the motto of the government. We can't afford divisive polity in India.
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First, I think the science of monetary economics has clearly gotten better.
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The loneliest Chinese man I ever met lived halfway up the Three Gorges, in Sichuan Province.
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A big man has no time really to do anything but just sit and be big.
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But once a fool always a fool, and the greater the power in his hands the more disastrous is likely to be the use he makes of it. The heaviest calamity in English history, the breach with America, might never have occurred if George the Third had not been an honest dullard.
