"Throughout the human experience people have read history because they felt that it was a pleasure and that it was in some way instructive. The profession of professor of history has taken it in a very different direction."

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Source : Interview with Bruce Cole, www.neh.gov. May/June 2005.

Donald Kagan

#Taken Quotes #People Quotes #Different Quotes

“It is a truism of epistolary psychology that, for example, a Christmas thank-you note written on December 26 can say any old thing, but if you wait until February, you are convinced that nothing less than Middlemarch will do.”
“If you train your mind for running, everything else will be easy.”
“Grace comes often clad in the dusky robe of desolation.”
“All great artists know that part of their task is to light up the distance between two human beings.”

Source : Nadeem Aslam (2011). “Maps for Lost Lovers”, p.13, Faber & Faber
“I would hate to be a new artist or writer in town today. But somehow the cream continues to rise. If there's one who's great, he just jumps out of the pack like you can't believe.”
“I had a classic case of what people call "seeker's disease." That was part of my journey, but now, meaning is like a secret that's revealing itself moment by moment, day by day.”

Source : Source: www.psychologytoday.com
“And now i'm like a major threat, 'Cause I remind you of the things you were made to forget.”
“Society as a whole must defend the conceived child's right to life and the true good of the woman who can never, in any circumstances, find fulfilment in the decision to abort.”

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