Benedetto Croce Quotes
We shall not understand the history of men and other times unless we ourselves are alive to the requirements which that history satisfied.
Quotes to Explore
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Summer is a promissory note signed in June, its long days spent and gone before you know it, and due to be repaid next January.
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So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.
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At first my publisher had reservations about publishing it in the form you are familiar with.
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When you live in a condo complex with people next door, I don't know how you can be dead for four months without anybody noticing you not coming and going.
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Yusuf Qaradawi is probably the most well-known legal authority in the whole Muslim world today.
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I'm proud of my sexuality.
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Color always vexed me because I would fight with the media I was using. I love coloring in Photoshop, and it's freed me to pursue ideas and techniques I wouldn't have otherwise attempted. Since I get to take an assignment from concept to final execution, I have more freedom in my idea-making processes.
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I have a satellite radio show called 'The Legends of Reggae.' It's a cool way to branch out and do other things. I'm paying respect to the legends of reggae.
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I stickhandle a lot at practice. I watch a lot of hockey, so I try to either pick up something from other players or watch some video and see what kind of move would work in the same situation.
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Despite the often illusory nature of essays on the psychology of a nation, it seems to me there is something revealing in the insistence with which a people will question itself during certain periods of its growth.
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I love when I go to conventions, and often it'll be the younger kids who will refer to us by our character names - how can you not find that absolutely charming? I remember when I used to go to conventions when I was a kid when I would stand in long lines to get people's autograph.
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I have lots of micro-goals of trying to get things done, whatever the amount of time available.
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I was brought up in Britain, and I'm very proud of my Britishness and my culture.
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The less life in a person, the more he will try to live off your life.
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When things go wrong, the standard management strategy is to decide who takes the blame. This should be an underling, as far down the chain as possible, but preferably with some visibility so people know management means business.
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I insist that there is nothing sacred in the life of an invader, and there is no valid principle of human society that forbids the invaded to protect themselves in whatever way they can.
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Over the years, many in the public have become numb to news of financial corruption, partly because too many of these stories involve banker-on-banker crime.
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I don't see my old films, but I think of the characters I played as friends, like the women I meet in my life who made strong impressions on me. I remember them and they are part of me.
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Like I said, I'm just trying to continue to improve and get better.
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What do I want in a good fantasy book? Court politics and social interactions based around houses and cities. Powerful women and devious men. Drama and action with emotional ramifications. Frocks. Kissing. Swords. An intense impression of history in the world-building.
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In the early 1970s in Atlanta, I attended what had formerly been an all-white school but had become a black school after integration and white flight. Perhaps because of this, the teachers created a curriculum that included a focus on African American literature and history year-round, not just in February.
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Fashion only seems to make sense if it's rooted in some dimension of history or if it feels like a continuation of an idea.
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The desire that is satisfied is not a great desire, nor has the shoulder used all its might that an unbreakable gate has never strained.
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We shall not understand the history of men and other times unless we ourselves are alive to the requirements which that history satisfied.
