Nathaniel Philbrick Quotes
As a former English major, I have always been fascinated by the connections between literature and history.
Nathaniel Philbrick
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I was brought up by the English side of my family, who are very repressed and working class. Absolutely lovely, but very English.
Bat for Lashes
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Art is always criticized and always an outsider gets the blame.
Ville Valo
HIM
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Every day it seems more likely that we are destined - or should one say doomed? - to replay the disastrous economic history of the 1930s.
Barry Eichengreen
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I read whenever possible, and I buy books all the time, sometimes online, but mostly from bookshops. I love literature. If you want to understand art, it's important to understand what is also happening in literature, in music, in science, in architecture.
Hans-Ulrich Obrist
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For most of our history, Americans enjoyed both liberty and security from foreign threats.
Harry Browne
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Philosophy of science without history of science is empty; history of science without philosophy of science is blind.
Imre Lakatos
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It was my great good fortune, while I was still a student at college, to have possessed a copy of an English translation of his great work 'The Sensations of Tone.' As is well known, this was one of Helmholtz's masterpieces.
C. V. Raman
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I don't hate language. I have my own language, but I also enjoy the English language. Obviously, you don't read a lot of literature and not care about language.
Twyla Tharp
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For much of history it was possible to believe that the great diversity of life on Earth was a fixed creation, that the living world had never changed. But when the first stirrings of industry demanded that fuel be dug from the earth and hillsides be leveled for roads and railways, the Earth's true past was dug up in abundance.
Kenneth R. Miller
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I suppose if I wanted to be the girl next door, I could have been. I think America is confused by someone who appears to be sexual and spiritual at the same time.
Sally Kirkland
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Writers, at least writers of fiction, are always full of anxiety and worry.
Peter Carey
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As a former English major, I have always been fascinated by the connections between literature and history.
Nathaniel Philbrick