"[H]istory is a melodrama on the theme of parasitism, characterized by scenes that are exciting or dull, as the case may be, and many a sudden stagetrick."

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Source : Max Nordau (1911). “The Interpretation of History”

Max Nordau

#History Quotes #Dull Quotes #May Quotes

“By following the concept of one country, two systems, you dont swallow me up nor I you.”
“There's a lot of other [than Donald Trump] people that say things you may call insulting, but no one seems to care about that.”
“The food we ate was Indian, and both my mother and father were very deep into the ancient philosophy of India, so it could well have been an Indian household.”
“Nor should the U.S. military be forced to remain in Iraq essentially as an army for one side of a civil war.”
“I am a Quantum Engineer, but on Sundays I Have Principles.”

Source : Opening sentence of his "underground colloquium" in March 1983, as quoted by Nicolas Gisin in "Quantum [un]speakables: from Bell to quantum information", p. 199, 2002.
“According to this view, democracy is a product of western culture, and it cannot be applied to the Middle East which has a different cultural, religious, sociological and historical background.”
“Books think for me. I can read anything which I call a book.”
“New Yorkers are stuck in a gloomy mucilage of mutual commiseration.”

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