"While we read history we make history."

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Source : George William Curtis (1894). “Orations and Addresses”

George William Curtis

#History Quotes

“Would you learn the secret of the sea? Only those who brave its dangers, comprehend its mystery!”
“I had pain in both knees my whole career. Not many athletes play pain-free. Mine was just more than normal.”
“As in political revolutions, so in paradigm choice--there is no standard higher than the assent of the relevant community. To discover how scientific revolutions are effected, we shall therefore have to examine not only the impact of nature and of logic, but also the techniques of persuasive argumentation effective within the quite special groups that constitute the community of scientists.”

Source : Thomas S. Kuhn (2012). “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions: 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.94, University of Chicago Press
“Except perhaps to our God, we all have a facade, even to our closest friends; some of us even to ourselves. . . . . It may not be good that we have it, but I don't believe the state or anyone else has a right to pierce that facade without the individual's consent.”
“Opus Dei is an efficient machine run to achieve world power.”

Source : "People of God: The Struggle for World Catholicism". Book by Penny Lernoux, 1989.
“As Sokrates tells it, your story begins the moment Eros enters you. That incursion is the biggest risk of your life. How you handle it is an index of the quality, wisdom, and decorum of the things inside you. As you handle it you come into contact with what is inside you, in a sudden and startling way. You perceive what you are, what you lack, what you could be.”
“There are lots of nations in the world or national peoples who don't yet have states. They're inside someone else's state and they want a state of their own.”
“After Barack Obama won the 2008 presidential election, I was heartened to see him issue an Open Government Initiative on his first full day in office.”

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