Leopold von Ranke Quotes
It is striking how history, when resting on the memory of men, always touches the bounds of mythology.
Leopold von Ranke
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Never speak to an invalid from behind, nor from the door, nor from any distance from him, nor when he is doing anything. The official politeness of servants in these things is so grateful to invalids, that many prefer, without knowing why, having none but servants about them.
Florence Nightingale
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Sometimes your parents are the ones with the biggest mouths of all time.
Dakota Johnson
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There's a hardening of the culture. Reality TV has lowered the standards of entertainment. You're left wondering about the legitimacy of relationships. It's probably harder to entertain the same people with a more classic form of writing, and romantic comedies are a classic genre.
Nancy Meyers
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Congratulations. I knew the record would stand until it was broken.
Yogi Berra
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Really, the '70s and '80s were a blur.
Manolo Blahnik
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If I'm going to do something, I'm going to do it 110%, or there's no point in doing it at all, especially if the work takes me away from time with my husband and children.
Victoria Beckham
Spice Girls
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Think deeply about things. Don’t just go along because that’s the way things are or that’s what your friends say. Consider the effects, consider the alternatives, but most importantly, just think.
Aaron Swartz
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If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied.
Alfred Nobel
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Now when I was a teenager, I was angsty as any teenager was, but after 17 years of having a mother who was in and out of my life like a yo-yo and a father who was faceless, I was angry.
Jarrett J. Krosoczka
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Everything depends on a good job - strong families, strong communities, the pursuit of the American dream, and a tax base to support schools for our kids and services for our seniors.
Bob Taft
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I don't like journalists and I hardly ever talk to them.
Mario Balotelli
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I manage a team, for beach soccer. I'm the coach. Player, coach.
Eric Cantona
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For years, Ireland used to have a philosophy of 'Get them in here to invest and develop in Ireland, and this will sort out our problems.' It is good in the sense of building a trade surplus, but we also want to develop what it is that we offer ourselves and that Irish companies export abroad.
Enda Kenny
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Actors, movie stars, rock stars, I can meet them with no worries - but with footballers I go weak at the knees. All of them.
Matt Smith
Poison
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The beginning of religion, more precisely its content, is the concept of religion itself, that God is the absolute truth, the truth of all things, and subjectively that religion alone is the absolutely true knoweldge.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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There's an institution here called the National Sound Archive, and there's a character who works there, Paul Wilson. He takes a very special interest in the history of the music and advised Martin Davidson of the existence of these tapes.
Evan Parker
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It is striking how history, when resting on the memory of men, always touches the bounds of mythology.
Leopold von Ranke
