"It is striking how history, when resting on the memory of men, always touches the bounds of mythology."

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Source : Leopold von Ranke (1840). “The ecclesiastical and political history of the popes of Rome during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries”

Leopold von Ranke

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“But are not the dreams of poets and the tales of travellers notoriously false?”
“I gave myself permission to care, because there are a lot of people in this world who are afraid of caring, who are afraid of showing they care because itâ€™s uncool. Itâ€™s uncool to have passion. Itâ€™s so much easier to lose when youâ€™ve shown everyone how much you donâ€™t care if you win or lose. Itâ€™s much harder to lose when you show that you care, but youâ€™ll never win unless you also stand to lose. Iâ€™ve said it before. Donâ€™t be afraid of your passion, give it free reign, and be honest and work hard and it will all turn out just fine.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The dialogue about sustainability is about a change in the human trajectory that will require us to rethink old assumptions and engage the large questions of the human condition that some presume to have been solved once and for all.”

Source : David W. Orr (2012). “The Last Refuge: Patriotism, Politics, and the Environment in an Age of Terror”, p.58, Island Press
“So let us all who pray ask for what most of them need badly, a sense of humor to lighten their way through life, making it merrier for themselves and easier for others.”
“One thing I think I've always felt about being in nature is that it's a very natural taste.”

Source : "Pharr Davis thrives on trail". Interview with Anna Katherine Clemmons, www.espn.com. July 2, 2013.
“Reince has produced a fully funded, superbly staffed and technologically advanced strategy to position the GOP to win in '14 and '16, and he has done so via an inclusive outreach to all branches of the party while staying out of the bunker and in the MSM on a 24/7 basis. The Republicans cannot ask for more from the RNC than they have gotten and the political battlefield is as well prepared as it has been since 2004 as a result.”
“We can only imagine what would happen to our health care and to the quality of our health care here in North Dakota if we took the federal government out of health care.”

Source : "Heitkamp on health care: past vs. present" by David Catanese, www.politico.com. March 23, 2012.
“In the traditional view, a person is free. He is autonomous in the sense that his behavior is uncaused. He can therefore be held responsible for what he does and justly punished if he offends. That view, together with its associated practices, must be re-examined when a scientific analysis reveals unsuspected controlling relations between behavior and environment.”

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