Sir Lewis Bernstein Namier famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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In a drop of rain can be seen the colors of the sun.
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History-writing is not a visit of condolence.
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Historical research to this day remains unorganized, and the historian is expected to make his own instruments or do without them; and so with wooden ploughs we continue to draw lonely furrows, most successfully when we strike sand.
-- Sir Lewis Bernstein Namier
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Life isn’t how you survive the thunderstorm, but how you dance in the rain.
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We say that to 'give up all evil and to develop the good' is the heart of the Buddha's teaching. If we only make merit but have not stopped doing bad things, then we will never have a day of completion. It is like an overturned bowl which is left outside in the rain. Even if the water is falling right on it, it only touches the outside and not the inside. In this way the bowl will never get full.
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I hate the color red almost as much as i hate blond hair,"he said with an amused tone. -Dank
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Dreams dress us carefully in the colors of power and faith.
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Achievement has no color
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Writing music is like tasting the sky. It keeps me dreaming in color.
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The diurnal sun sets at night, but the sun of the heart never disappears.
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I wouldn't live in California. All that sun makes you sterile.
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The source of this energy is the sun's radiation.
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Happy, happy, happy for all that God hath done, Glad of all the little leaves dancing in the sun.
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