Edmund Morgan Quotes
So many able historians have worked over seventeenth-century New England that one would think there was little left to be learned from the people who lived there - fewer than 100,000 at the end of the century. Seldom, apart perhaps from the Greeks and Romans, have so few been studied by so many.Edmund Morgan
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The Supreme Court is not elected, and it is therefore not a proper arbiter of social policy.
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I was a tomboy and didn't pay too much attention to my clothes.
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I say to my colleagues never confine your best work, your hopes, your dreams, the aspiration of the American people to what will be signed by George W. Bush because that is too limiting a factor.
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I've never managed to keep a journal longer than two weeks.
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All of my relationships have happened organically with people who are super cool and in my life and it just moved into a relationship zone.
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Any effort to create a second class of Americans, I just can't swallow that.
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Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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Never eat spinach just before going on the air.
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I saw the pilot for 'Girls' about six months before it aired.
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We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of 'separate but equal' has no place.
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I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure, Jesus Christ.
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You don't have to have a great voice to sing, just a distinctive one. But make sure you say the words clearly and tell a story.
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No man may make another free.
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Hair is also a problem. I remember once, when I was reporting from Beirut at the height of the civil war, someone wrote in to the BBC complaining about my appearance.
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I'm not a universalist, and the way I talk about final loss is this: People worship idols - money, whatever. Their humanness gets reshaped around the idol - you become like what you worship. That's one of the basic spiritual laws.
N. T. Wright -
I believe that we should be able to marry whom ever we choose. As long as both people are willing... I say go for it!
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We Greeks are the blacks of Europe.
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A rainbow is the product of physics working for your appreciation of beauty.
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But however measurable, there is much more life in music than mathematics or logic ever dreamed of.
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Most real failures are due to limitations which men set up in their own minds.
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I think that the first film I saw in the theater was 'The AristoCats.' I was like, 'Oh my God, this is brilliant!' That's when I knew I wanted to work in cinema. I was four or five.
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I don't think I'm essentially interested in children's books. I'm interested in writing, and in pictures. I'm interested in people and in children because they are people.
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So many able historians have worked over seventeenth-century New England that one would think there was little left to be learned from the people who lived there - fewer than 100,000 at the end of the century. Seldom, apart perhaps from the Greeks and Romans, have so few been studied by so many.
Edmund Morgan