Edward Hallett Carr Quotes
I am reminded of Housman's remark that 'accuracy is a duty, not a virtue.' To praise a historian for his accuracy is like praising an architect for using well-seasoned timber or properly mixed concrete in his building. It is a necessary condition of his work, but not his essential function.
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Show me a smile, and I'll show you one back.
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I'm interested in all things that Donald Trump does. I've known him since 1980. He's a good man.
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I do not feel remorse. Everybody makes mistakes in war.
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I want to continue to remain present and grateful each day that I get to be doing what I love. Making and performing music I believe in.
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Competition is a powerful and essential part of this nation's economy and vital to cutting government costs.
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As someone who has long loved history and reads a lot of history, especially when you get a distance like 130 years, these people can seem almost mythical, and you need something tangible to make them real.
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My parents were journalists and friends with writers, artists, and just a really interesting assortment of people, so I was exposed to all lifestyles from a young age.
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When I was in charge of the Christian Coalition I was available to mobilize grass roots support for somebody.
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In this vast country of ours, people profess different religions, speak different languages, dress differently and observe different customs; but we are one nation; the history of our struggle for independence and our faith in our future development are our common bonds.
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There is an unwritten social rule now that you can harangue the wealthy to give money away, but you mustn't ask how the money was made. There are no galas celebrating the money people knew better than to seek. Charity begins after profit.
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If there are but few who interest thee, why shouldst thou be disappointed if but few find thee interesting?
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A person's tragedy does not make up their entire life. A story carves deep grooves into our brains each time we tell it. But we aren't one story. We can change our stories. We can write our own.
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I don't like hearing that I've lost weight. I like hearing that it looks like I have gained weight?!
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When you put relative and absolute truth together and they become one unit, it becomes possible to make things workable. You are not too much on the side of absolute truth, or you would become too theoretical. You are not too much on the side of relative truth, or you would become too precise. When you put them together, you realize that there is no problem.
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There is not a heart but has its moments of longing, yearning for something better; nobler; holier than it knows now.
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Actors tend to get in their own way, a lot. A lot of times you will do things that will screw up your audition process. I was very bad at auditioning, and I always went in to it saying ‘God I hope I don’t screw this up.’ But at the same time, the directors are saying, ‘God, I hope this person is the savior.’ You have to remember is that the worst thing that could happen is you don’t get the job you don’t already have.
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When you follow your heart, you're never supposed to do things because of what you think people might say. You do it for the opposite reasons.
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Every sport has its own cast of characters.
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It is the greatest good for an individual to discuss virtue every day...for the unexamined life is not worth living.
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The rider and the team need to understand one another and work in the same direction. Then the rider's happy, and only then will the rider be able to give 100%.
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Tides of History provides a splendid prism through which we may view the wider world of Victorian science. . . . Historians of science will have cause to heap praise on this book, but so too will the non-specialists. The author's splendid writing style, at times appropriately Puckish, makes this work an accessible and enjoyable read.
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I am reminded of Housman's remark that 'accuracy is a duty, not a virtue.' To praise a historian for his accuracy is like praising an architect for using well-seasoned timber or properly mixed concrete in his building. It is a necessary condition of his work, but not his essential function.
