"Women have their uses for historians."

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Source : Ronald Syme (1989). “The Augustan Aristocracy”, p.168, Oxford University Press

Ronald Syme

#Use Quotes #Historian Quotes

“She may have looked normal on the outside, but once you'd seen her handwriting you knew she was deliciously complicated inside.”

Source : "The Marriage Plot". Book by Jeffrey Eugenides, www.theguardian.com. 2011.
“We live in an extraordinary time”

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“When an institution goes through an inflection point, it has to institutionalise itself. That institutionalisation requires governance to be put in place, governance processes.”

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“I'll love you when my eyes are open, I'll love you when my eyes are gone.”
“I think we need to find more reasons to unify rather than divide each other.”
“Among the social sciences, economists are the snobs. Economics, with its numbers and graphs and curves, at least has the coloration and paraphernalia of a hard science. It's not just putting on sandals and trekking out to take notes on some tribe.”
“Make it simple to last your whole life long. Don't worry that it's not enough for anyone else to hear. Just sing, sing a song”
“Our interaction with our friends, for instance, is in large part an interaction with representations in our own head of the people before us. That's why a friend can surprise or disappoint us.”

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