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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In cases of porphyria, a minor disease, the patient excretes large quantities of porphyrins.
Hans Fischer
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As the eldest son of an Alabama sharecropper family, I was constantly troubled by a collage of North American southern behaviors and notions in reference to the inhumanity of people. There were questions that I did not know how to ask but could, in my young, unsophisticated way, articulate a series of answers.
John Henrik Clarke
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We are about to be attacked by Al Qaeda. Wave flags if you have them. That always seems to scare them away. I'm kidding.
Kurt Vonnegut
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Companies like Google and Facebook may offer jobs allowing or requiring imagination and creativity, but the whole of Silicon Valley accounts for only 3 percent of national income and a smaller percentage of national employment.
Edmund Phelps
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It's like there's some unwritten rule that if you're mates, you can say what you want to each other, and you don't really get that annoyed about it.
Karl Pilkington
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As a former English major, I have always been fascinated by the connections between literature and history.
Nathaniel Philbrick
