"Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat raggedly on into the future...."

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Simon Schama

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“Among the social sciences, economists are the snobs. Economics, with its numbers and graphs and curves, at least has the coloration and paraphernalia of a hard science. It's not just putting on sandals and trekking out to take notes on some tribe.”
“I don't need it to be easy. I just want it to be worth it.”
“What good it does one to have a hearty, uncontrollable fit of laughter.”

Source : Charlotte Alington Barnard (1877). “Thoughts, verses, and songs, by Claribel”
“President Obama will be going to Disney World where he'll unveil his new plan to create jobs. And what better place for the president to talk about his jobs plan than Fantasyland?”
“Someday war and poverty will be crazy and we will wonder how the world allowed such things to exist.”
“Players that aren't true leaders but try to be, always bash other players after a mistake. True leaders on the pitch already assume others will make mistakes.”
“The Spirit of God is not something less than God, - it is God.”
“One of God's central qualities is compassion, a word that in Hebrew is related to the word for "womb." Not only is compassion a female image suggesting source of life and nourishment but it also has a feeling dimension: God as compassionate Spirit feels for us as a mother feels for the children of her womb. Spirit feels the suffering of the world and participates in it. . . .”

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