Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges Quotes
History is not the accumulation of events of every kind which happened in the past. It is the science of human societies.
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Human technology has made it to Mars. We are transmitting gorgeous pictures from it. Yet we have not explored our own planet. Two-thirds of it is covered with oceans that are still mysterious places.
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It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.
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We, too, must change as circumstances evolve.
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To make a couple putts to win the Masters is just an amazing feeling.
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I think I'm an okay parent, but I'd put myself in the category of a musician-who-happened-to-become-a-father. I'm definitely not a father-who-happened-to-be-a-musician.
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To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward or fear of any punishment in this world or the next. Work so done is a means to the end, and God is the end.
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We are today, in this country, convulsed by the situation in Iraq. It is an extraordinary crisis. It is taxing our men and women in uniform, and it is certainly taxing our resolve.
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In the '60s, I did many satirical portraits of dictators.
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A bad peace is even worse than war.
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Whenever a toddler sees a pile of blocks, he wants to tear it down.
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The only thing that matters to me is getting to the work - getting to do the work. And I don't really care where it is: whether it's on stage or on television or in film.
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I don't like expeditions where it is a total lottery whether you live or die. You have to keep those sort of good luck cards for rare occasions!
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I have been traveling to every corner of the great state of Florida. I've met some great people and we've had an honest discussion about the failures of Washington.
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A million years went by quick.
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I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma.
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You don't have to own squirrels and starlings to get enjoyment from them … One day, we would like an end to pet shops and the breeding of animals. Dogs would pursue their natural lives in the wild … they would have full lives, not wasting at home for someone to come home in the evening and pet them and then sit there and watch TV.
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What you are is a man who means to be good, and undo the bad he’s done, and that’s as good as any man ever gets.
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By promoting justice and thus the interests of the international community as a whole, a state will be able to make its influence over others sustainable and achieve its own national interest.
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Fame comes and fame goes, but you have to be able to laugh about yourself and to take it with a grain of salt.
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Ideas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectifications of this kind one may hope to disengage an idea that is valid.
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The possibility of saying anything about a thing rests on the assumption that it preserves its identity, or continues to be the same thing in the respect described, that it will behave in future situations as it has in past.
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A lot of the time I'm in the present, and I'm thinking about the past or scheming about the future and missing every present moment, instead of actually partaking of the sacrament of every present moment.
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A good country song takes a page out of somebody's life and puts it to music.
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History is not the accumulation of events of every kind which happened in the past. It is the science of human societies.
