"The past is what provides us with the building blocks. Our job today is to create new buildings out of them."

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Source : "Theodore Zeldin - historian, philosopher". History Today, July 1999.

Theodore Zeldin

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“The big icebergs that drift into warmer water melt much more rapidly under water than on the surface, and sometimes a sharp, low reef extending two or three hundred feet beneath the sea is formed. If a vessel should run on one of these reefs half her bottom might be torn away.”
“I don't believe in guilty pleasures. If you enjoy something, there's nothing guilty about it.”
“For what made that in glory shine so long But poets' Pens, pluckt from Archangels' wings?”
“We should not forget that the spark which ignited the American Revolution was caused by the British attempt to confiscate the firearms of the colonists.”
“It's not the average people that come to my show.”
“Perfection is no more a requisite to art than to heroes.”
“Bad guys need love too.”
“The terrorists know that the outcome will leave them emboldened or defeated. So they are waging a campaign of murder and destruction. And there is no limit to the innocent lives they are willing to take.”

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