"History is the only science enjoying the ambiguous fortune of being required to be at the same time an art."

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Source : Johann Gustav Droysen (1893). “Outline of the Principles of History”

Johann Gustav Droysen

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“If I have to spend time in purgatory before going to one place or the other, I guess I'll be all right as long as there's a lending library.”
“They must find it difficult ... those who have taken authority as the truth, rather than truth as the authority.”
“Increasing the power of the state in response to the Soviet menace would not defeat socialism in Russia but bring it to the United States.”
“I deeply adored my mum. She was an extraordinary person, even for the prejudice I'm likely to have. She was beautiful, amusing, a tremendous elaborator of things into comic proportions and extravagant in her imagination.”
“If as individuals we can improve the geography only slightly, if at all, perhaps the more appropriately scaled subject for reshaping is ourselves.”
“Once the fabric of a just society is undone, it takes generations to weave it back together.”
“I tend to get very nervous before the first races of the year. It takes you a bit of time to get into the season.”

Source : Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“I love to work with the younger kids who are trying to live out their dreams, if in fact that's what they plan on doing after college to take the next step. A very select few have that opportunity so when you do have the opportunity you know, those guys take advantage of it.”

Source : Interview with Jon Robinson, www.ign.com. January 26, 2006.

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