"Imagination plays too important a role in the writing of history, and what is imagination but the projection of the author's personality."

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Source : Pieter Geyl (1949). “Napoleon: For and Against”

Pieter Geyl

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“Simplicity is simple. Perhaps this sounds redundant. But it's true, and it's important.”
“The object of golf is not just to win. It is to play like a gentleman, and win.”
“What appears is good; what is good appears.”
“The Theatre of the Oppressed is theatre in this most archaic application of the word. In this usage, all human beings are Actors (they act!) and Spectators (they observe!).”

Source : Augusto Boal (2005). “Games for Actors and Non-Actors”, p.15, Routledge
“You think that way as you begin to get grayer and you see pretty plainly that the game is not going to end as you planned.”
“The fact that that's the difference between Mexicans and Cubans is pronounced. It's so immediately recognizable, the way a Cuban speaks, the way a Cuban moves the hands.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“My kids are pretty secure, bright, and know who they are.”
“The poverty line understates the true amount of poverty because it measures it as three times the breadbasket that a family needs, but it doesn't consider all the other things that are inflating far, far faster than food prices.”

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