"History is on every occasion the record of that which one age finds worthy of note in another."

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Source : Jacob Burckhardt (1964). “Force and Freedom: Reflections on History”, New York : Pantheon Books

Jacob Burckhardt

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“President Trump has the advantage of being surrounded by an excellent cadre of advisors. Kim Jong-un doesn't have any advisors that are going to give him objective counsel. He's surrounded by medal-bedecked sycophants, who dutifully follow him around like puppy dogs with their notebooks open, ascribing his every utterance, and pushing back against the great leader is not a way to get ahead.”

Source : Source: www.politico.com
“It is no use describing a house; the reader will fix the scene in some spot he knows himself.”
“A feeling of confidence and personal power comes from facing challenges and overcoming them.”
“They make money the old fashioned way... they earn it.”

Source : John Houseman (1986). “Unfinished business: a memoir”
“I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life. We are not sent into the world to air our moral prejudices. I never take any notice of what common people say, and I never interfere with what charming people do. If a personality fascinates me, whatever mode of expression that personality selects is absolutely delightful to me.”
“People don't know I've got a deep social conscience. I'm a child of the Depression, born in 1933. My parents were very liberal in their social views.”
“Art has to do with the arrest of attention in the midst of distraction.”
“I like living in the city where I have all my books and music and can go out to buy that night's dinner or easily see a band. But I also like the wild places, especially hiking in the desert and the Eastern woodlands. Do I have to choose?”

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