"I have read somewhere or other,-in Dionysius of Halicarnassus, I think,-that history is philosophy teaching by examples."

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Source : "Letters on the study and use of history" by Henry St. John Bolingbroke, (letter 2), 1752.

Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke

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“As a producer, I try to bring as many nice people as I can to insure that there's no screaming, there's no shouting, there's no bullying. The more of those kind of people that you can bring together, the better the experience everyone has on set.”

Source : Interview with Dave Trumbore, collider.com. November 7, 2012.
“A wedding dress is both an intimate and personal for a woman - it must reflect the personality and style of the bride.”
“You see guys getting in trouble, but you also see the good in people. It's just a matter of always learning.”
“Scientists constantly get clobbered with the idea that we spent 27 billion dollars on the Apollo programs, and are asked "What more do you want?" We didn't spend it; it was done for political reasons. ... Apollo was a response to the Bay of Pigs fiasco and to the successful orbital flight of Yuri Gagarin. President Kennedy's objective was not to find out the origin of the moon by the end of the decade; rather it was to put a man on the moon and bring him back, and we did that.”
“For all the gold and silver stolen and shipped to Spain did not make the Spanish people richer. It gave their kings an edge in the balance of power for a time, a chance to hire more mercenary soldiers for their wars. They ended up losing those wars anyway, and all that was left was a deadly inflation, a starving population, the rich richer, the poor poorer, and a ruined peasant class”

Source : Hans Koning (1992). “Columbus: His Enterprise: Exploding the Myth”, p.118, NYU Press
“I guess when you see somebody in the hallway or on the field or something, it's nice to know that they are a real person.”
“I'm doing a fun EP. It's called 'Songs in the Key of Phife: Eight Is Enough.' It's radio-friendly, but then a lot of it just has that raw hip-hop. Some of it will be vintage Tribe, but for the most part I'm just letting my voice be heard.”
“The claim of the Zen followers that they are transmitting the essence of Buddhism is based on their belief that Zen takes hold of the enlivening spirit of the Buddha, stripped of all its historical and doctrinal garments.”

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