Edward Hallett Carr Quotes

What distinguishes the historian from the collector of historical facts is generalization.

Edward Hallett Carr

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• John McCain... looks like a fraud to me.

  

  Young Jeezy
  • Me
  • Looks
  • Fraud

• 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.

  

  Hank Johnson
  • Work
  • School
  • Risk

• 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.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • People
  • Time
  • Thinking

• 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.

  

  Yasmin Mogahed
  • Life
  • Real
  • True

• Shapewear is the canvas and the clothes are the art.

  

  Sara Blakely
  • Art
  • Clothes
  • Canvas

• The best ideas are common property.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Ideas
  • Property

• Truth does not judge.

  

  Anthony Douglas Williams
  • Truth
  • Judge

• The phytochemicals, antioxidants, and fiber- all of the healthful components of plant foods - originate in plants, not animals. If they are present, it is because the animal ate plants. And why should we go through an animal to get the benefits of the plants themselves? To consume unnecessary, unseemly, and unhealthy substances, such as saturated fat, animal protein, lactose, and dietary cholesterol, is to negate the benefits of the fiber, phytonutrients, vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants that are prevalent and inherent in plants.

  

  Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
  • Plants
  • Components
  • Healthful

• A golf swing is a collection of corrected mistakes.

  

  Carol Mann
  • Golf
  • Mistakes
  • Swing

• 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.

  

  Aly Michalka Aly & AJ
  • Mystery
  • Hollywood
  • Dressing

• 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.

  

  Clay Regazzoni
  • Life
  • Champion
  • Top

• It was a promise she knew I might not be able to keep. But I made it anyway because I was going to find a way to make it true.

  

  Kami Garcia
  • She
  • True
  • Promise

• What distinguishes the historian from the collector of historical facts is generalization.

  

  Edward Hallett Carr
  • Historian
  • Collector
  • Generalization