"Politics are vulgar when they are not liberalised by history, and history fades into mere literature when it loses sight of its relation to practical politics."

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Source : John Robert Seeley (2010). “The Expansion of England: Two Courses of Lectures”, p.166, Cambridge University Press

John Robert Seeley

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“For me, a good friend is someone you might only see once or twice a year but each time it feels as though you've just seen them last week.”
“There is in my opinion a great similarity between the problems provided by the mysterious behavior of the atom and those provided by the present economic paradoxes confronting the world.”
“I've been called many things. But I suppose 'the devil' is as good a name as any.”

Source : Kirsten Miller (2010). “The Eternal Ones”, p.232, Penguin
“Harrison Ford... I love him. He's a man's man.”
“I just knew if it could be done, it had to be done, and I did it”
“If you're not happy, if you're not Emmersonianly happy and think everything's going to get better, then you're just sort of a dark animal.”

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“Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences.”
“Do not try to be what you are not, be what you are. The Universe has a built in truth recognizer, what ever is false about you, it will expose to light, either through you or others, pay attention.”

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