"All objects lose by too familiar a view."

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John Dryden

#Views Quotes #Familiar Quotes

“Comparison of statements made at different periods frequently enable us to give maximal and minimal dates to the appearance of a cultural element or to assign the time limits to a movement of population.”

Source : Edward Sapir, David Goodman Mandelbaum (1985). “Selected Writings of Edward Sapir in Language, Culture and Personality”, p.394, Univ of California Press
“This is the real tragedy of America's 'Internet freedom agenda': It's going to be the dissidents in China and Iran who will pay for the hypocrisy that drove it from the very beginning.”
“Inspiration is a guest that does not willingly visit the lazy.”
“Immunity corrupts; absolute immunity corrupts absolutely.”

Source : Analog Science Fiction and Fact Magazine, 1970.
“I think, if you can only talk about your stuff in a jargonistic way, you're not as smart as you think. You're alienating people who deserve to have a conversation, or a place in the conversation. If you take the complete inverse and are staunchly anti-intellectual, then I think there's a certain amount of resentfulness in that. There's something about that standpoint that feels a little bit insecure.”

Source : Source: thequietus.com
“As the primary end of History is to record truth, impartiality, fidelity and accuracy are the fundamental qualities of an Historian.”

Source : Hugh Blair (1858). “Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres: Chiefly from the Lectures of Dr. Blair”, p.263
“Fame is simply an imbalance between inbound and outbound attention.”
“I am no dummy, mate, that's for sure.”

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