"It is never a waste of time to study the history of a word."

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Source : "Civilisation: Evolution of a Word and a Group of Ideas" (1930)

Lucien Febvre

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“To please a child is a sweet and lovely thing that warms one's heart and brings its own reward.”
“I think I'm more influenced, just in general, not by blues artists, but more by stuff from Curtis Mayfield, Stevie Wonder. Stevie Wonder is probably my biggest musical influence of all. And Donny Hathaway.”

Source : "Meet & Greet Monday : Conversations with Jonny Lang and DJ Steve Porter". Interview with Mike Ragogna, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 25, 2010.
“Erotica is using a feather; pornograpy is using the whole chicken.”
“If you treat every situation as a life and death matter, you'll die a lot of times.”
“In joy or sadness, flowers are our constant friends.”

Source : Okakura Kakuzo (2000). “The Book of Tea the Illustrated Classic Edition”, p.84, Tuttle Publishing
“There is this stereotype of Icelanders all believing in spirits, and I've played up to that a bit in interviews.”
“Shakespeare said pretty well everything and what he left out, James Joyce, with a judge from meself, put in.”
“Our faith teaches that there is no safer reliance than upon the God of our fathers who has so singularly favored the American people in every national trial and who will not forsake us so long as we obey His commandments and walk humbly in His footsteps”

Source : Harry Joseph Sievers, William McKinley (1970). “William McKinley, 1843-1901: Chronology, Documents, Bibliographical Aids”, Oceana Publications

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