Edward Hallett Carr Quotes
What distinguishes the historian from the collector of historical facts is generalization.
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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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Jesus was clear that He had come, not to make life easy, but to make men great.
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Its been a long night" "aren't they all?
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I sing about UFOs and extraterrestrials, and so I designed a UFO fashion. It includes science-fiction bikinis and Bermuda Triangle shorts.
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I moved to Princeton, Indiana, and became a professional Farm Manager for that Princeton Farms.
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The greatest poet who ever wrote about rowing is Virgil, the greatest historian is Thucydides, but the greatest imagination ever to turn its attention to the sport is that of painter, Thomas Eakins.
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What distinguishes the historian from the collector of historical facts is generalization.
