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I hated history in school. I couldn't understand why one has to learn, what someone did hundred years ago. Battles, speeches, forming… — Shweta Basu Prasad Copy Share Image
Until a few years ago, the topics in my Ph.D. were unfashionable, but they are very popular today. — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
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Many years ago, I really didn't know where the next work was coming from. — Daniel Day-Lewis Copy Share Image
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I offer not pity, platitudes, or sympathy; for I respect those I care for far to much to do such things. I… — Vladislas Nikilovic Copy Share Image
“So why are you so mad at me for kissing you?” “Because you took too long. If you'd done that, say, three… — Rusty Fischer Copy Share Image
Economic policies absorb almost the entire attention of government, and at the same time become ever more impotent. The simplest things, which… — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
“Estimates are that the hunter-gatherers who were all but wiped out by the agricultural revolution numbered around 2 million 12,000 years ago.… — Adam Rutherford Copy Share Image
“The satiation level beyond which experienced well-being no longer increases was a household income of about $75,000 in high-cost areas (it could… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
I'm not trying to clock scores in this lifetime, it's just that things are better now than they were like five, ten… — Jerry Garcia Copy Share Image
“Walking along the tables, my spirits sank even lower. Almost all the better fiddles, the ones made by professionals, were antiqued copies.… — James N McKean Copy Share Image
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As filmmakers, we want the audience to have the most complete experience they can. For example, I interviewed Stanley Kubrick years ago… — Michael Mann Copy Share Image
I've been doing it since I was prepubescent when I loved to scratch records and play good music. As it happens, you… — A-Trak Copy Share Image
“Our sense that a library is a public good and our idea of what such a place should look like derived precisely… — Stephen Greenblatt Copy Share Image
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“[Dialogue between Solon and an Egyptian Priest] In the Egyptian Delta, at the head of which the river Nile divides, there is… — Plato Copy Share Image
“If you have people who treat you badly in your life, they will be a human shield against people who will treat… — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
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“Nine years ago, my sister handed me a paperback she had picked up in an airport shop on her way to India.… — Rachel Falconer Copy Share Image
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Over 30 years ago, Airbus was founded by a European consortium of French, German, and later Spanish and British companies to compete… — Norm Dicks Copy Share Image
“So, there we were. The five of us - Marco, Tobias, Rachel, Cassie, and me. Five normal mallrats heading home. Sometimes I… — Katherine Applegate Copy Share Image
There are two outstanding issues in democratic politics these days. One is the relationship with the media, which is now 24/7, and… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
“the fact is, our relationships to these corporations are not unambiguous. some memebers of negativland genuinely liked pepsi products. mca grew up… — Anne Elizabeth Moore Copy Share Image
Two thousand years ago a man did walk. He was sent into this world to die He did more than talk. — Zion Y Lennox Copy Share Image
“[F]or all its reputation for conservatism, cricket in its history has demonstrated a remarkable capacity for innovation. What game has survived subjection… — Gideon Haigh Copy Share Image
“Just as we look back in horror at the lives of people five hundred years ago, I imagine people five hundred years… — Mark Manson Copy Share Image
A hundred years ago the American white men used to put on a white sheet and use a bloodhound against Negroes. Today… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
“I just sit there where she tells me to and don’t make a fuss. If I answer back she gets loud and… — Dawn O'Porter Copy Share Image
In America, we happen to be living in a third world country from the point of view of economic and social development.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
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