"To converse with historians is to keep good company; many of them were excellent men, and those who were not, have taken care to appear such in their writings."

-- Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke

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“Hungary is, in a word, in a state of WAR against the Hapsburg dynasty, a war of legitimate defence, by which alone it can ever regain independence and freedom.”

Source : Lajos Kossuth, Francis William Newman (1854). “Select Speeches of Kossuth”, p.17
“My belief that the publishing industry is run by prigs and cowards dates back to many years before I even had the idea for the book.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“I think we also have learned the lesson that we have to have better incentive structures.”

Source : Source: bigthink.com
“I make one pledge above all others - to seek and speak the truth with all the resources of mind and spirit I command.”
“In place of a world, there is a city, a point, in which the whole life of broad regions is collecting while the rest dries up. In place of a type-true people, born of and grown on the soil, there is a new sort of nomad, cohering unstably in fluid masses, the parasitical city dweller, traditionless, utterly matter-of-fact, religionless, clever, unfruitful, deeply contemptuous of the countryman and especially that highest form of countryman, the country gentleman.”
“I know there is pressure to present a nice tidy story as regards 'apparent unprecedented warming in a thousand years or more in the proxy data' but in reality the situation is no quite so simple.”

Source : "Controversy behind climate science's 'hockey stick' graph" by Fred Pearce, www.theguardian.com. February 2, 2010.
“I am a misanthrope yet utterly benevolent.”
“When it began, Christianity was regarded as a system entirely beyond the range and scope of human reason; it was impious to question; it was impious to examine; it was impious to discriminate. On the other hand, it was visibly instinct with the supernatural. Miracles of every order and degree of magnitude were flashing forth incessantly from all its parts.”

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