"No, this customary aim of research by excavators is completely foreign to the historical work with which I am occupied... my sole and only aim is to be able to establish a historical fact, on which I disagree with some eminent historians and geographers."

-- Heinrich Schliemann

#Historical Quotes #Able Quotes #Facts Quotes

“We've had periods of meanness in American politics. Actually, the dawn of partisan division in America was basically in George Washington's second term, when it was obvious that he would be the first and only consensus president.”
“A presumption of any fact is, properly, an inferring of that fact from other facts that are known; it is an act of reasoning; and much of human knowledge on all subjects is derived from this source.”
“This splendid subject [mathematics], queen of all exact sciences, and the ideal and norm of all careful thinking...”
“Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big.”
“At either end of the social spectrum there lies a leisure class.”
“there is every reason to fear that the State is growing ever more powerful, more autonomous, more indifferent to its own inhabitants.”

Source : charles a. reich (1970). “the greening of america”
“People in general are used to seeing me as the naughty girl because that's what they've always cast me as.”
“You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success - or are they holding you back?”

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