Edward Hallett Carr Quotes
The facts speak only when the historian calls on them: it is he who decides to which facts to give the floor, and in what order or context.
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What we have to remember is that children matter as much as adults, but they aren't equal with adults.
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I wouldn't take on the project unless I could have complete creative control in casting.
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There was a vacuum in investigation, and the press began to try men in the most effective court in the country.
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Some McDonald's restaurants are taking reservations on Valentine's Day. They are getting a lot of tables for one.
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Everything in this life is only a glimpse of the real thing. Love, beauty, pleasure, even pain in its true essence is only in the next.
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Vanity Fair is a very vain, wicked, foolish place, full of all sorts of humbugs and falsenesses and pretensions.
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I won't insult your intelligence by suggesting that you really believe what you just said.
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The best ideas are common property.
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Truth does not judge.
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There's no map for being an artist.
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I didn't know what to expect coming to college. High school was pretty easy and I guess I expected college to be along the same route. It was just an overwhelming experience.
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You can do amazing things when you believe.
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I tell you I'm dangerous and you want to put knives near me?" - Vaughn to Faith
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The essence of the enjoyment of a garden is that things should look as though they like to grow in it.
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On the floor I am more at ease. I feel nearer, more part of the painting, since this way I can walk around it, work from the four sides and literally be in the painting.
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Whenever you think of Lincoln as a historian, in his own mind, he becomes the Great Emancipator. This is his role in history henceforth. He was an ambitious man who wanted to make an impact on history, and this is how he did it.
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The facts speak only when the historian calls on them: it is he who decides to which facts to give the floor, and in what order or context.
