"A historian should not be didactic-that is a word that makes my blood run cold."

-- Edmund Morgan

#Running Quotes #Blood Quotes #Cold Quotes

“Corporations are social institutions. If they don't serve society, they have no business existing”
“Our participation in the single market, and our ability to help set its rules is the principal reason for our membership of the EU. So it is a vital interest for us to protect the integrity and fairness of the single market for all its members.”
“There is no sinfulness in the will and affections without some error in the understanding. All lusts which a natural man lives in, are lusts of ignorance.”

Source : George Gillespie (1846). “The Presbyterian's Armoury”
“The erotic is a resource within each of us that lies in a deeply female and spiritual plane, firmly rooted in the power of our unexpressed or unrecognized feeling. . . .”
“We on our part will stick to our independent foreign policy of peace, acting forever as a strong defender of world peace and a persistent proponent of common development.”
“I am surprised by what people expect of me.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“Don't be a writer, it's a terrible way to live your life, there's nothing to be gained from it but poverty and obscurity and solitude. So if you have a taste for all those things, which means that you really are burning to do it, then go ahead and do it.”
“But to everything in this world there comes an end; there even comes an end to the torments suffered in those intermediate states of transition when the last secret tear of one's soul is bitterly swallowed, and the crisis passes, resolving itself into some new sort of phase, which even as it comes into existence is fated in turn to pass away, to disappear in the eternal changing of the times and seasons.”

Source : Nikolai Bukharin (2005). “How It All Began: The Prison Novel”, p.110, Columbia University Press

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