"To what degree are historians chroniclers of the truth and to what degree are they just novelists, frankly?"

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Source : Source: deadline.com

Peter Morgan

#Novelists Quotes #Degrees Quotes #Historian Quotes

“Yet one more item is needed to complete success, and that is the rendering of service to others in the community. Without this the mere satisfaction of selfish desire does not reach the top notch.”

Source : Robert Baden-Powell (2013). “Playing the Game: A Baden-Powell Compendium”, p.14, Pan Macmillan
“It is a huge honour to be recognised as the world's best commentator, particularly against so many sporting greats.”
“Bunny slippers remind me of who I am.You can't get a swelled head if you wear bunny slippers. You can't lose your sense of perspective and start acting like a star or a rich lady if you keep on wearing bunny slippers. Besides, bunny slippers give me confidence because they're so jaunty. They make a statement; they say, 'Nothing the world does to me can ever get me so far down that I can't be silly and frivolous.”
“once a kittypet always a kittypet." -longtail”
“As I have said so often before, the long memory is the most radical idea in Americaâ€¦.”

Source : "The Long Memory". CD by Utah Phillips and Rosalie Sorrels, 1996.
“There are really at least two Indias, there is an India or a shining India the one which the west seas usually through urbanize and there is an India outside some of the big metro policies and in even the tier two cities and in rural India which is completely different. It goes by the name of Bahar which is a traditional name for India.”

Source : Source: bigthink.com
“It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.”

Source : Arnold J. Toynbee (1949). “Civilization on Trial”
“The progress in Iraq is still fragile. And it could still be reversed. Iraq still faces innumerable challenges, and they will be evident during what will likely be a difficult process as the newly elected Council of Representatives selects the next prime minister, president, and speaker of the council.”

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