"History in Burckhardt's words is 'the record of what one age finds worthy of note in another.' The past is intelligible to us only in light of the present; and we can fully understand the present only in light of the past. To enable man to understand the society of the past and to increase his mastery over the society of the present is the dual function of history."

Source : Edward Hallett Carr, Robert William Davies (1986). “What is history?: the George Macaulay Trevelyan lectures delivered in the University of Cambridge January-March 1961”

Edward Hallett Carr

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“Thereâ€™s no such thing as trust unless you have unanswered questions in your life. If you know everything, theres nothing to trust God for.”
“It's different when you become a professional, because you also have to become a businessman, and that takes something away from it”
“I'm always on tour, so I'm always trying new tracks out live before they're released. That's more necessity than anything, because I don't get a proper chance to sit in a studio and work on tracks like other producers do.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“If you say three things in a row that make sense, people will vote for you.”
“One has to live in the present. Whatever is past is gone beyond recall; whatever is future remains beyond one's reach, until it becomes present. Remembering the past and giving thought to the future are important, but only to the extent that they help one deal with the present.”

Source : S. N. Goenka (2012). “Discourse Summaries”, p.14, Pariyatti Publishing
“It's not easy that everything you do, everybody has to come in and critique it and give their opinion. Sometimes it does help me and sometimes it hurts me as a person. That's life. I have feelings.”

Source : "Q&A WITH MARIAH CAREY : 'My Whole Life I've Been Going for This Goal'". Interview with Richard Cromelin, articles.latimes.com. November 23, 1993.
“The client isn't quite satisfied and then the prostitute is always unsatisfied but is doing it just to make ends meet. And if you're doing fine art, if you're doing it for a gallery or a museum, it's so sterilized. It's such an antiseptic environment.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“I have to stay humble. I'm just a normal human with a job that is televised.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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