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“It is clear that history differs from the other disciplines in having an approach and not an area of its own.”
Source : Leonard Krieger, M. L. Brick (1992). “Ideas and Events: Professing History”, p.152, University of Chicago Press
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“When I was in my early 20s, my dream was to write mystery novels. I wanted to do what my favourite crime writer, Ross Macdonald, did - crank out a book a year. The only problem - and it was a considerable one - was that I stank.”
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“I know each conversation with a psychiatrist in the morning made me want to hang myself because I knew I could not strangle him.”
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“The two top teams with nice weather and nice people were Dallas and Miami. Of course, the Lakers wouldn't want to trade me in the same conference, so Miami was perfect.”
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“I fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me.”
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“If you look at the market cap increase in Apple since it created the iPod versus what's happened to the music industry, you have to say Apple got the better part of that deal.”
Source : "Warner Music Group CEO: Steve Jobs Got the Best of Us" by Paul Bond, www.hollywoodreporter.com. January 31, 2012.
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“Modesty, tis a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world.”
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“For many decades now - and certainly during my adult life in academe - the Western intellectual world has not been convinced that theology is a pursuit that can be engaged in with intellectual honesty and integrity.”
Source : Arthur Peacocke (2004). “Evolution: The Disguised Friend of Faith?”, p.160, Templeton Foundation Press