"History is either a moral argument with lessons……" — Andrew Marr
"History is either a moral argument with lessons for the here-and-now, or it is merely an accumulation of pointless facts."
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12 Quotes by Andrew Marr
Andrew Marr has 12 quotes on this site.
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Journalism is nine-tenths being in the right places at the right time.
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The great background question about the Labour governments of the sixties is whether with a stronger leader they could have…
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Androgynous fashion, long hair, the Pill, a new interest in the inner psychological life - an unabashed sloppiness, if you…
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Hard news really is hard. It sticks not in the craw but in the mind. It has an almost physical…
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The truth is, "What is a journalist?" is one of those questions for which there is no proper answer. The…
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Journalism is often simply the industrialisation of gossip.
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Clearly the human story is one of acceleration. There has been a Moore curve in terms of the number of…
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In the end, does it really matter if newspapers physically disappear? Probably not: the world is always changing. But does…
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Rude interviewers are ten a penny, and politicians have long since learned how to cope.
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Unlike the general public, I rather like most politicians.
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Interviews, and hence interviewers, are there to help shed light, and to let viewers judge for themselves. We are not…
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More Accumulation Quotes
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one of 240 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Life tends to be an accumulation of a lot of mundane decisions, which often gets ignored.
— David Byrne
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I am opposed to the accumulation of executive power anywhere.
— Noam Chomsky
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The decisive step in evolution, the first step toward macroevolution, the step from one species to another, requires another evolutionary…
— Richard Goldschmidt
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Women, who are a majority of the peoples of the earth, are indispensable to the accumulation of the kind of…
— Mahnaz Afkhami
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When I contemplate the accumulation of guilt and remorse which, like a garbage-can, I carry through life, and which is…
— Cyril Connolly
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Courage is only an accumulation of small steps.
— Gyorgy Konrad
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It is not the accumulation of extraneous knowledge, but the realization of the self within, that constitutes true progress.
— Okakura Kakuzo
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Perhaps middle-age is, or should be, a period of shedding shells; the shell of ambition, the shell of material accumulations…
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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The secret to living a full life with no regrets and to staying young is to figure out what you…
— William J. Clinton
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We were not always 70, or rather our 70 is an accumulation of all the other ways we were. Our…
— Anne Roiphe
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Why should we all use our creative power....? Because there is nothing that makes people so generous, joyful, lively, bold…
— Brenda Ueland
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We live an age of science and of abounding accumulation of material things. These did not create the Declaration. Our…
— Calvin Coolidge
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