"The writing of histories - as Goethe once noted - is one way of getting rid of the weight of the past.... The writing of history liberates us from history."

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Source : Benedetto Croce (1941). “History as the Story of Liberty”

Benedetto Croce

#Writing Quotes #Past Quotes #Weight Quotes

“Someone is always going to try to knock you down and take your place. It is up to you to fight for what you want.”

Source : FaceBook post by Teresa Mummert from Apr 19, 2012
“Ambition without knowledge is like a boat on dry land -movie - Karate kid"What is the calculus of innovation?" "The calculus of innovation is really quite simple: knowledge drives innovation, innovation drives productivity, productivity drives our economic growth."”
“All the rest of us - you and me and even the thousands of soldiers behind the lines in Africa - we want terribly yet only academically for the war to get over.”

Source : Ernie Pyle (2004). “Here is Your War: Story of G.I. Joe”, p.196, U of Nebraska Press
“I had learned how it felt to want more than the sweet touch of hand to cheek or lips to palm, more than a kiss, more than an embrace. I was starting to discover that it is not only the mind that understands love, but also the body.”
“What's wrong with extreme dieting and hard-core fitness plans is that they don't take into account the rest of your life.”
“Genius is perseverance in disguise.”
“I'd been depressed before, of course. But I'm talking about really depressed. Not just feeling a bit down or sad, a depression that has something to do with biorhythms. I'm talking about the kind of depressed that floats in upon you like a fog. You can feel it coming and you can see where it is going to take you but you are powerless, utterly powerless to stop it. I know now.”
“I don't think we're wasting people in space.”

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