"Completeness is rare in history ..."

-- Barbara Tuchman

#History Quotes #Completeness Quotes

“I have deep respect for people's individual faith, but when faith gets connected to the machinery of state, or the machinery of hate, I find it very confronting.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“we Irish don't really need thousands of people surging behind a big brass band to have a parade. One guitar player and a few people whistling will do the job.”
“Working with people on a field turns me on.”
“There are certain ways of being that people don't find acceptable or very pleasant in regular life, but you go out on stage and do pretty much the same thing and they find it spellbinding.”

Source : Interview with Paul Rudd, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 17, 2013.
“Every mathematical discipline goes through three periods of development: the naive, the formal, and the critical.”
“The distinct blue, red, and yellow colors... though they have not the kind of harmony which is produced by a variety of broken and transparent colors, have the effect of grandeur.”
“Addiction is not something we can simply take care of by applying the proper remedy. For it is in the very nature of addiction to feed on our attempts to master it.”

Source : Gerald G. May (2009). “Addiction and Grace: Love and Spirituality in the Healing of Addictions”, p.10, Harper Collins
“If you want to know about Africa, read our literature - and not just 'Things Fall Apart,' because that would be like saying, 'I've read 'Gone with the Wind' and so I know everything about America.'”

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