Walter Benjamin Quotes
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The difference between eccentricity and originality in historical studies is often difficult to detect at first encounter. When a radically new interpretation of a large segment of history makes its appearance, time is needed to sift the evidence.
Edmund Morgan
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I don't feel that it's either necessary or appropriate for me to comment on what the NFL either says or does.
Gary Bettman
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Teaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, caliber, and future of an individual. If the people remember me as a good teacher, that will be the biggest honour for me.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
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I never get recognised here in London, which I like. Once a year, someone comes up to me and asks if I am 'so-and-so's niece' because they think they recognise me from somewhere. I like that.
Carey Mulligan
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So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.
E. M. Forster
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However, anyone to whom this happens should not leave his room upon awakening, should speak to no-one, but remain alone and sober until everything comes back to him, and he recalls the dream.
Paracelsus
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The thing about curly hair is that it's a toss-up. Some days you can let it air dry and it's better than a hair-do, but some days you just look like a sloppy person. I'm really resistant to a trim. I only do it when it gets hard to brush out in the shower, then I'll submit, begrudgingly.
Natasha Lyonne
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There is lasting kindness in Heaven when no kindness is found upon earth.
Lady Gregory
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I'm generally competing with the ideal I have set for myself, and I've found that served me very well.
Victoria Principal
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Terms like that, 'Humane Society,' are devised with people like me in mind, who don't care to dwell on what happens to the innocent.
Barbara Kingsolver
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We can succeed only by concert. It is not, 'Can any of us imagine better,' but, 'Can we all do better?'
Abraham Lincoln
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My name is usually the one on the end of people's lips.
Ian Wright
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I think, at the end of the day, when you hear the same voice all the time, it goes in one ear and out the other when you're a player.
Jerry West
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I think it's refreshing when the people you're looking up to mess up just like you do, but somehow, things, in their own way, work out.
Melanie Scrofano
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Originally, I came from Texas, and we lived on - I guess you'd call it welfare, what we called relief.
Carol Burnett
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My dad planned a road trip every summer, so we always did the road trip. We did the Eastern Seaboard and learned about the history of the United States.
Vicki Lawrence
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History is that which is agreed upon by mutual consent.
M. L. Stedman
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History breaks down in images not into stories.
Walter Benjamin
