Edward Hallett Carr Quotes
History consists of a corpus ascertained facts. The facts are available to the historian in documents, inscriptions and so on, like fish in the fishmonger's slab. The historian collects them, takes them home, and cooks and serves them in whatever style appeals to him.Edward Hallett Carr
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Planning bores me. I like to go with the flow. Being whimsical is nice, occasionally. It keeps things fresh; there's no expectation.
Vijay Sethupathi -
There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.
Oscar Wilde -
Growing up, all I did was work and vacation, but I loved it, no one pushed me into anything. The thing was I developed no special skills. I don't have any resentment because I am a performer and I've always felt that, but it did take its toll socially.
Dana Plato -
Understanding the importance of evolving is very important. Reinventing is very important. To break what you have already done is very important. That growth should never stop.
Yami Gautam -
An uplifting sense of purpose is more than an impetus for individual accomplishment, it is also a necessary insurance policy against expediency and impropriety.
Gary Hamel -
I can change a light fixture, and I can do certain things. But I'm really bad in terms of construction. I can't do any of it on my own.
Nate Berkus
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Listen to the sounds of nature. Wishing you the best on your trek towards your dreams.
Kalpana Chawla -
I have a lot of faults. I often interrupt in meetings. I talk too loud. I talk too fast.
Aaron Levie -
I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.
Imogen Cunningham -
The fact that one can lose one's sense of self in an ocean of tranquility does not mean that one's consciousness is immaterial or that it presided over the birth of the universe.
Sam Harris -
I love wushu a lot and I would love to see it included in future Olympic Games.
Jackie Chan -
There are different types of talents and intelligences, and traditional schools sometimes ignore the creative ones. It is important for us to give kids every platform for them to find what they are good at and what they love. The arts also provide a space for newfound creativity.
Caity Lotz
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Governments have monopolies on certain things, like eminent domain and deadly force.
P. J. O'Rourke -
I always keep a woman's body in mind, accentuating her best features.
Rachel Roy -
The data says that with the poor, a little money can buy a lot of happiness. If you're rich, a lot of money can buy you a little more happiness. But in both cases, money does it.
Daniel Gilbert -
The trouble with facts is that there are so many of them.
Samuel McChord Crothers -
The instructor said, Go home and write a page tonight. And let that page come out of you - Then, it will be true.
Langston Hughes -
When I was working on my first novel, 'The Quilter's Apprentice,' I knew I wanted to write about friendship, especially women's friendship and how women use friendship to sustain themselves and nurture each other.
Jennifer Chiaverini
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Lawyers earn their bread in the sweat of their browbeating.
Lawyer -
When we save the rain forest, the polar bear, and Al Gore, we should party so hard that Canada calls the cops on us for noise.
Paula Poundstone -
West Pointers tend to be rigorously honest - more than necessary, in my view.
James Salter -
Sane people did what their neighbors did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them.
George Eliot -
History consists of a corpus ascertained facts. The facts are available to the historian in documents, inscriptions and so on, like fish in the fishmonger's slab. The historian collects them, takes them home, and cooks and serves them in whatever style appeals to him.
Edward Hallett Carr