Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges Quotes
History is no easy science; its subject, human society, is inifinitely complex.
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The directors told me they were going to recruit good players with whom I could play decent football. Marko Marin, Oscar and me, we like to have the ball at our feet. Juan Mata likes the ball; so does Ramires.
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I'd just play 'til my hands fell off. My parents would yell at me to stop because they couldn't stand the noise any more! I was terrible! It must have been hard for them to listen to me as a beginning drummer.
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Every village in Africa now has a cyber cafe.
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I'm an Oscar nominee. I love saying that. Whatever happens, I'm going to sing that 'I'm an Oscar nominee' part.
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It is so important for girls and boys to have a female, strong superhero to look up to.
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I get the feeling that people from outside the world of contemporary art see it as deserving of mockery, in an emperor's-new-clothes sort of way. I think that's not right and that it's just because they don't understand the discourse.
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People that don't know me get 'Mossed'. It means, I was gonna go home, but then I just got led astray. In the best possible way, of course. I mean, it's always fun, and a good time.
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The fans sing my name around the world. When I meet fans, they ask, 'How are you? All good with your family?'
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Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
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Our take was that if we are going to support our customers, we have to help them with video distribution, whether that is iPad, TV, small screen or large screen.
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You know, one of these things that happened in the '60s and '70s was this confluence of, sort of, a counter-culture with computer culture.
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Pretty much anybody who's ever worked can relate to our show.
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I think it's the broadest source of dissatisfaction amongst Republicans, out-of-control spending.
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No matter how much makeup I wore, people just kept saying 'Yes, sir! Would you like tea with that, sir?' 'Yes, I would like tea. Why don't you put it on my breasts?' 'Certainly. Tea for this man's breasts! Anything else, sir?'
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'My father still reads the dictionary every day. He says your life depends on your power to master words.'
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I saw something in the news, so I copied it. I put a piece of tape - I have obviously a laptop, personal laptop - I put a piece of tape over the camera. Because I saw somebody smarter than I am had a piece of tape over their camera.
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It's fantastic to see 'Les Miserables' become the top-grossing film at the U.K. box office.
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The highest that a man can attain is to be able to do.
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Love is so fragile and so often fatal. I am amazed when people are brave enough to risk it.
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Born in 1936, I experienced the Second World War as a child in the city of Gelsenkirchen-Buer. This area was heavily bombed, but fortunately, all members of my family survived the war and post-war period.
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Somehow it's O.K. for people to chuckle about not being good at math. Yet if I said, 'I never learned to read,' they'd say I was an illiterate dolt.
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I let the dog out, or I let him in, and we talk some. I let him know I like him, and he lets me know he likes me.
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History is no easy science; its subject, human society, is inifinitely complex.
