"I can see only one safe rule for the historian: that he should recognize in the development of human destinies the play of the contingent and the unforeseen."

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Source : History of Europe (1935) p. vii

H. A. L. Fisher

#Destiny Quotes #Play Quotes #Development Quotes

“I think 'Scarface' is a great film, but if you have a character like Tony Montana, you don't identify with him at all. I think it's very interesting instead to identify yourself with a character you don't like all the time. You can create a tension between the fiction and the viewer. You force the spectator to wonder about his actions.”

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com
“Now when the ancient Egyptians, awestruck and wondering, turned their eyes to the heavens, they concluded that two gods, the sun and the moon, were primeval and eternal; and they called the former Osiris, the latter Isis.”
“Living with the liberals, you get to hear their arguments, fight with them all the time. Keeps me alert.”
“Stay naked as much as possible, but do not impose your orgiastic will on others. Don't have sex in the lobby - it's usually awkward.”
“I can't believe people got so upset at the sight of a single breast! America is so parochial, I may just have to move to Europe where people are more mature about things like that!”
“Fashion is general. Style is individual.”

Source : Edna Woolman Chase, Ilka Chase (1954). “Always in Vogue”
“For every woman and girl violently attacked, we reduce our humanity. For every woman forced into unprotected sex because men demand this, we destroy dignity and pride. Every woman who has to sell her life for sex we condemn to a lifetime in prison. For every moment we remain silent, we conspire against our women. For every woman infected by HIV, we destroy a generation.”
“Oh, that Einstein, always skipping lectures... I certainly never would have thought he could do it.”

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