"History is a pageant and not a philosophy."

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Source : Augustine Birrell (1902). “Collected Essays”

Augustine Birrell

#Philosophy Quotes #History Quotes #Pageant Quotes

“Ever since the civil rights movement, the black church has always encouraged people to utilize their voting right, which is a right that was fought for.”
“I should love to do a novel, about one abnormal character seeing present-day life, very ordinary life, yet arresting through it, abnormality, until at the end the reader sees, and with little reluctance, that he is not abnormal at all, and that the main character might as well be himself.”
“I would say that my fatal flaw, as a human being, is that I need people to like me, and if they don't like me, I will obsess over it - and try to change my personality until they like me - even if they don't like me for reasons that have nothing to do with me, and even if they're strangers.”
“That's who you really like. The people you can think out loud in front of.”
“In the war on terrorism, the immigrant is often the scapegoat.”

Source : "‘Birds of Paradise Lost’: A Conversation With Author Andrew Lam". Interview with Anna Challet, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 5, 2013.
“You donâ€™t have to go looking for pictures. The material is generous. You go out and the pictures are staring at YOU.”
“Beware what you speak,' said the Merlin very softly, 'for indeed the words we speak make shadows of what is to come, and by speaking them we bring them to pass, my king.”

Source : Marion Zimmer Bradley (2001). “The Mists of Avalon”, p.255, Ballantine Books
“God will hold sinners with one hand over the pit of hell, while He torments them with the other.”

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