Geoffrey Elton Quotes

Since historical reconstruction is a rational process, only justified and indeed possible if it involves the human reason, what we call history is the mess we call life reduced to some order. pattern and possibly purpose.

Geoffrey Elton

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• Reconstruction

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• I have one friend that I've had since I was born, and she's from Coatzacoalcos. She's not really impressed or interested in the actor's life. My family isn't really either.

  

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• My music is not just about entertainment. It is about enlightenment also.

  

  Kailash Kher
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• When you procrastinate, you're more likely to let your mind wander. That gives you a better chance of stumbling onto the unusual and spotting unexpected patterns.

  

  Adam Grant
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• I can change a light fixture, and I can do certain things. But I'm really bad in terms of construction. I can't do any of it on my own.

  

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• My responsibility is to ensure that the position of the Department of Justice is not only legally defensible, but is informed by our best view of what the law is after consideration of all the facts.

  

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• I didn't like children. I didn't think of myself as a child. I didn't like any of the things other children were interested in.

  

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• A gentleman is simply a patient wolf.

  

  Lana Turner
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• I think it's horrible that people have to be told. Don't smoke! Everybody knows it's bad for the health. But they have to forbid it.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
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• People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.

  

  Iris Murdoch
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• Through theater and acting school, I found a way to articulate myself.

  

  Adam Driver
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• Most of the movies I saw growing up were viewed as totally disposable, fine for quick consumption, but they have survived 50 years and are still growing.

  

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• Every actor has his own identity. I don't aspire to be Bond. My quest is to do something new, something different.

  

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• My place of refuge is definitely watching movies and playing video games. I know that's kind of hard to fathom.

  

  Cam Newton
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• You know, punk bands now sell with one record - their first or second record - sell 10 times the amount of records than the Ramones did throughout their career with 20-something records. That's why I go over to Johnny Ramone's house and do yard work three times a week, just to absolve some of the guilt.

  

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• If you were just intent on killing people you could do better with a bomb made of agricultural fertiliser.

  

  Ian Hacking
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• That's one of those questions, whether human beings are really capable of change, or if all seeming changes are really a matter of framing the existing character in a different moral situation.

  

  Orson Scott Card
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• Well, before you are always self-you’re always self-centered. Everything is for you. Your self is God. And we make lousy gods. Humans make lousy gods, I think. We need to let God be God and us be what we are. I think that’s what changes: the focus on who you’re serving. You’re not serving you. You’re serving Christ.

  

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• I'll tell ya, in New York City, where I've lived far too long, 'fuck' isn't even a word, it's a comma.

  

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• You and I, as citizens, have the obligation to shape the debates of our time, not only with the votes we cast, but the voices we lift in defense of our most ancient values and enduring ideas.

  

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• Saigon, U.S.A. aptly documents the birth of a new American community, uprooted in the aftermath of war and forever torn apart by the wounds of the past, yet one capable of healing against all odds. An engrossing yet succinct film that captures not only a major incident in Vietnamese American life, but also an important chapter of American history. A profound film that manages to confront us with the deepest sorrow while allowing us to be hopeful about what it means to be human.

  

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• If food were free, why work?

  

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• If you put Earth out beyond Neptune, you wouldn't be able to call it a planet because it couldn't clear its zone.

  

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• Witnessing the pain of others is the very least you can do in this world. It's how you know that when your own turn comes, someone will be there with you.

  

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• Since historical reconstruction is a rational process, only justified and indeed possible if it involves the human reason, what we call history is the mess we call life reduced to some order. pattern and possibly purpose.

  

  Geoffrey Elton
  • History
  • Purpose
  • Justified