Edward Hallett Carr Quotes
What distinguishes the historian from the collector of historical facts is generalization.
Quotes to Explore
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John McCain... looks like a fraud to me.
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Any cut to Pell Grants means low-income must take out additional loans or work longer hours - risk factors that increase their odds of dropping out of school.
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Every second he breathed, the smell of the grass, the cool air on his face, was so precious: To think that people had years and years, time to waste, so much time it dragged, and he was clinging to each second.
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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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Shapewear is the canvas and the clothes are the art.
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The best ideas are common property.
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Truth does not judge.
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A golf swing is a collection of corrected mistakes.
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When I think about old Hollywood and the glamour of those days, women like Grace Kelly, Marilyn Monroe, and Audrey Hepburn were not dressing the way some girls dress today. There was a certain mystery about them, and I feel like that's gone in our industry.
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I was just racing day by day. With Niki [Lauda], every race was to be on the top. He programmed his life to be champion. I enjoyed life. That was the maximum for me.
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Beauty is that which excites the soul.
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If I want to be moved by the track, I don't want it to be sequenced, I want it to be somebody playing the guitar or piano or a horn arrangement where you can hear the breath. You can almost smell the studio while listening to the music. For me, that's what moves me emotionally, that's what I came from. I think that's always going to work best for me.
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I don't know if Jerry Lawler got here in a plane, or a time machine.
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My kindness is my weakness but my weakness is my biggest strength.
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Why did people run around in random directions when shooting started instead of literally hitting the deck to stay out of the line of fire? How stupid could you get?
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What distinguishes the historian from the collector of historical facts is generalization.
