"History should not be written to make the present generation feel good but to remind us that human affairs are complicated."

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Source : Margaret MacMillan (2010). “The Uses and Abuses of History”, p.127, Profile Books

Margaret MacMillan

#Feel Good Quotes #Generations Quotes #Complicated Quotes

“Let go of your mind and then be mindful. Close your ears and listen!”
“Value investing requires a great deal of hard work, unusually strict discipline, and a long-term investment horizon. Few are willing and able to devote sufficient time and effort to become value investors, and only a fraction of those have the proper mind-set to succeed.”
“You're a leader. It's your job to keep your passion hot. Do whatever you have to do, read whatever you have to read, go wherever you have to go to stay fired up. And don't apologize to anybody.Â ”
“I swallowed a hand grenade that never stops exploding.”
“The groundhogs are pretty good at eluding. If somebody is trying to come after a ground hog, they go and they burrow.”

Source : "Nancy Grace", www.cnn.com. December 24, 2009.
“I'm a real Suzy Homemaker.”
“Where all think alike there is little danger of innovation.”
“The learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than the unlearned, but it is still nonsense.”

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