"History will help to remedy intellectual faults such as excessive concentration on one line of thought, absence of understanding for other points of view, belief in simple solutions, lack of balance of mind, absence of an imaginative understanding."

-- Geoffrey Elton

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“The microscopes that magnified the tears, studied warts and all. Still life flows on.”
“There aren't many laughs in that and I remember doing a look and everybody laughed and I just thought, wow, that's incredible how you can do that. So I did another look and they laughed again and then I remember thinking, hold on, this isn't right for this piece, you've got to stop it.”

Source : "Seriously funny" by Jasper Rees, www.telegraph.co.uk. July 29, 2006.
“There is no happiness without tears, no life without death. Beware! I am going to make you cry.”
“When I was very small, maybe 8 years old, we had a big radio that stood on four legs, and it had a cross piece underneath it, and I used to take a pillow and crawl under the radio.”

Source : "Dodgers’ Vin Scully ‘One on One’ From the Booth". Interview with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. October 5, 2009.
“Asia's crowded and Europe's too old, Africa is far too hot and Canada's too cold. And South America stole our name, let's drop the big one.”

Source : Song: Political Science
“I don't believe in guilt, I believe in living on impulse as long as you never intentionally hurt another person, and don't judge people in your life. I think you should live completely free.”
“I think any stereotyping is too much.”
“Perhaps that is because you mistake death for justice, and they are not the same thing at all.”

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