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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I always struggle auditioning, actually, because I'm so obsessed with era-appropriate clothing.
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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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I'm pro Union.
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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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Either I do not corrupt the young or, if I do, it is unwillingly.
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When you've moved past a point where you're just scrambling for jobs, you think about the things that you want to do. And the things that you want to do are governed by what you've seen, what you choose to embrace.
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I see the situation of man in the world of planetary technicity not as an inexitricable and inescapable destiny, but I see the task of thought precisely in this, that within its own limits it helps man as such achieve a satisfactory relationship to the essence of technicity. National Socialism did indeed go in this direction. Those people, however, were far too poorly equipped for thought to arrive at a really explicit relationship to what is happening today and has been underway for the past 300 years.
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I am not going to stop speaking out on behalf of policies that I think are right - regardless of ideology, party or political expediency.
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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.
