"You've got to marinate your head, in that time and culture. You've got to become them." (Speaking about researching, and reading, and immersing yourself in History)"

-- David McCullough

#Reading Quotes #Culture Quotes

“Anyone who wants to vote probably shouldn't be allowed to vote. Voting is the first step towards zombification - trying to get something without actually working for it.”
“Many suffer so that some day all Irish people may know justice and peace..”
“I'm much happier just to write myself out of the script entirely...”
“I got my Equity card from an audition out of Backstage. We did 'Guys and Dolls' and 'Kismet.'”
“The myth of the self-sufficient individual and of the self-sufficient, protected, and protective familytells us that those who need help are ultimately inadequate. And it tells us that for a family to need help--or at least to admit it publicly--is to confess failure. Similarly, to give help, however generously, is to acknowledge the inadequacy of the recipients and indirectly to condemn them, to stigmatize them, and even to weaken what impulse they have toward self-sufficiency.”
“Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.”

Source : Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell”, p.70, Routledge
“I was a backstage kid. I was in the wings looking out.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“[Michael] Gove will be the underdog fighting for the underdog in this leadership race.”

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