"Without history we are infants. Ask what binds the British Isles more closely to America than to Europe and only history gives a reply. Of all intellectual pursuits, history is the most supremely useful. That is why people crave it and need ever more of it."

-- Simon Jenkins

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“It couldn't be an all-bad world, could it, not with birds who warble and call? Maybe that was the secret - to find the few things that made life just a fraction better, and to focus on those. Bird warbles. Peach fuzz. Puppies barking as if they're full grown dogs. Nothing great, certainly nothing to justify the rest of it, but enough to keep you going.”
“Life is made up of a series of judgments on insufficient data, and if we waited to run down all our doubts, it would flow past us.”
“I was at my best at a little past forty, when I was a professor at Oxford.”
“In the field of sports you are more or less accepted for what you do rather than what you are.”
“Communication does not depend on syntax, or eloquence, or rhetoric, or articulation but on the emotional context in which the message is being heard. People can only hear you when they are moving toward you, and they are not likely to when your words are pursuing them.”

Source : Edwin H. Friedman (2013). “Friedman's Fables”, p.13, Guilford Press
“Katie, 90% of the things you worry about don't happen, and the 10% that do, you can't do anything about.”
“A pitcher has to look at the hitter as his mortal enemy.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“On my way to the office in the morning, there are, in front of me, behind me, other men going to their jobs. I see them; if I dared, I would smile at them. I think to myself that I am a socialist, that they are the purpose of my life, of my efforts and that they do not know it yet.”

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