"But then history does not only consist of documents."

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Source : John Lukacs (2011). “The Hitler of History”, p.265, Vintage

John Lukacs

#History Quotes #Doe Quotes

“Children from the age of five to ten should watch more television. Television depicts adults as rotten SOB's given to fistfights, gunplay, and other mayhem. Kids who believe this about grownups aren't likely to argue about bedtime.”
“I Can't win the World Cup alone”
“I might believe I had unusual talent if I did not know what good music was; I might enjoy half an hour's practice a day if I were busy and happy the rest of the time. You do not know what life means when all the difficulties are removed! I am simply smothered and sickened with advantages. It is like eating a sweet dessert the first thing in the morning.”

Source : Jane Addams (2012). “Twenty Years at Hull-House: With Autobiographical Notes”, p.48, Courier Corporation
“Most of the things one worries about never happen.”
“Conscience is called the adversary, because it always opposes our evil will; it reminds us of what we ought to do but do not, and condemns us if we do something we ought not.”
“I'm too lazy and I like food and I like my free time too much to spend it working out!”
“It occurred to me that if Africa needed us, sometimes we needed Africa a great deal more.”

Source : Helen Fielding (2012). “Cause Celeb”, p.127, Pan Macmillan
“For greatness is only the drayhorse that coaxes The built cart out; and where we go is reason. But genius is an enormous littleness, a trickling Of heart that covers alike the hare and the hunter.”

Source : 1939 FirstWill andTestament,'The Character of Love Seen as a Search for the Lost'.

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