"History is now strictly organized, powerfully disciplined, but it possesses only a modest educational value and even less conscious social purpose."

-- J. H. Plumb

#Educational Quotes #History Quotes #Purpose Quotes

“I'm a terrible photographer.I'm not being modest. My photos really are crap. But in a way, the more the photo is crap, the better to paint from.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“It is the duty of all papas and mammas to forbid their children to drink coffee, unless they wish to have little dried-up machines, stunted and old at the age of twenty... once saw a man in London, in Leicester Square, who had been crippled by immoderate indulgence in coffee; he was no longer in any pain, having grown accustomed to his condition, and had cut himself down to five or six cups a day.”
“When I was a kid, I lived in this small town way out in the country. We had three TV channels and one radio station. I couldn't even get my hands on good comic books. My aunt, who is a librarian, gave me Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings," Laura Ingalls Wilder's "Little House on the Prairie," and Lewis's "The Chronicles of Narnia." They were such incredible treasures to have in my somewhat mundane country life.”
“I believe that intelligence and rationality will always be primary no matter what shape sentient creatures take. To not think that would be to doubt the value of life itself.”

Source : Peter F. Hamilton (2009). “Pandora's Star”, p.645, Pan Macmillan
“Myths often do a lot of theoretical good, while they are still new.”
“Everything is the way it is because everything was the way it was. Sometimes I feel ensnared in this, as if no matter what I do, what will come has already been fixed.”
“I had teen angst for a while, but I think every teenager has the angst.”
“There is always an audience for different individuals, but critics sometimes stop the audience finding the show and the show finding the audience.”

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