"To be a really good historian is perhaps the rarest of intellectual distinctions."

-- Thomas B. Macaulay

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“True success is what you have done compared to what you could have done.”
“Whenever you have something looping, you essentially have something generating information with less information.”
“Be ready and willing to be a beginner every morning. That's how you grow and step into your greatness”

Source : Twitter post from Mar 29, 2015
“Consistency is the death of good acting.”

Source : Michael Shurtleff (2009). “Audition: Everything an Actor Needs to Know to Get the Part”, p.103, Bloomsbury Publishing USA
“Congratulations. You have met your conscience. In my experience, the world is divided between those who have one and those who don't. And the ones with one are divided into those who will act on their conscience and those who won't. Those who will are, I'm afraid, the smallest category. They will *jeito*. It's Brazilian Portuguese. It means to find a way to get something done, no matter what the obstacles.”
“One of the strongest natural proofs of the folly of hereditary right in kings, is, that nature disapproves it, otherwise, she would not so frequently turn it into ridicule by giving mankind an ***** for a lion.”
“There are numerous layers to truth, and the simple and superficial statement of facts cannot satisfy the writer.”
“Women have fought so long and hard for our rights and equality, and now all our attention is put on being a size 0.”

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