"History is either a moral argument with lessons for the here-and-now, or it is merely an accumulation of pointless facts."

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Source : Andrew Marr (2009). “A History of Modern Britain”, p.19, Pan Macmillan

Andrew Marr

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“To ask "Where in your brain is intelligence?" is like asking "Where is the voice in the radio?"”
“I long to hear the story of your life, which must captivate the ear strangely.”
“It's Niagara Falls. It's one of the most beautiful natural wonders in the world. Who wouldn't want to walk across it?”
“You are not a helpless victim of your own thoughts, but rather a master of your own mind.”
“Before World War II, Modernist architects sometimes had to resort to custom fabrication or outright fakery to achieve the machine imagery advocated by the Bauhaus after its initial, Expressionist, phase. Stucco masqueraded as reinforced concrete; rivets were used for decoration.”
“For email, the old postcard rule applies. Nobody else is supposed to read your postcards, but you'd be a fool if you wrote anything private on one.”
“The ultimate consequences of the individualist spirit in economic life are those which you yourselves, Venerable Brethren and Beloved Children, see and deplore: Free competition has destroyed itself; economic dictatorship has supplanted the free market; unbridled ambition for power has likewise succeeded greed for gain; all economic life has become tragically hard, inexorable, and cruel.”
“Fascination with horses predated every other single thing I knew. Before I was a mother, before I was a writer, before I knew the facts of life, before I was a schoolgirl, before I learned to read, I wanted a horse.”

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