"The Jewish story is the story of wandering.……" — Simon Schama
"The Jewish story is the story of wandering. It is the story of extraordinary heterogeneous complication."
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57 Quotes by Simon Schama
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But it struck me that the extreme violence and cruelty of the English Civil War had gone understated.
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Historians are left forever chasing shadows, painfully aware of their inability ever to reconstruct a dead world in its completeness…
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There are some places where history just grabs you by the jugular. This is one of them.
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From the days of the Founding Fathers, right to this (2008) election, how and where America fights to defend its…
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From 1789, perhaps even before that, it had been the willingness of politicians to exploit either the threat or the…
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Even for the most excitable preacher, there was nothing inherently sinful about a waffle.
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The next worse thing to a battle lost is a battle won.
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I'm helplessly and permanently a Red Sox fan. It was like first love...You never forget. It's special. It's the first…
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DIY, cricket, automobile repair. I could study it for a lifetime and not produce a word on the carburettor.
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What can art really do in the face of atrocity?
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Great art has dreadful manners. The greatest paintings grab you in a headlock, rough up your composure, and then proceed…
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Landscapes are culture before they are nature; constructs of the imagination projected onto wood and water and rock. It is...…
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More Complication Quotes
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It's a very difficult thing losing a parent, but I think there's an added complication for me, because he was…
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The enemy is still proud and powerful. He is hard to get at. He still possesses enormous armies, vast resources,…
— Winston Churchill
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Confusion and clutter are failures of design, not attributes of information. And so the point is to find design strategies…
— Edward Tufte
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Contemporary man is blind to the fact that, with all his rationality and efficiency, he is possessed by "powers" that…
— Carl Jung
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To simplify complications is the first essential of success.
— George Earle Buckle
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The blame for the maddening complications of the federal tax system goes to the people with the most money
— Nicholas von Hoffman
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Discrimination and multiple deprivations of human rights are also frequently part of the problem, sentencing entire populations to poverty... It…
— Navi Pillay
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Almost everybody in the neighborhood had troubles, frankly localized and specified; but only the chosen had complications. To have them…
— Edith Wharton
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I'm not that complicated. My complications come out in my songs. All you need to do to be my friend…
— Taylor Swift
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If someone wants to give me the lead in anyone of those films, and deal with those other complications, terrific,…
— Joe Morton
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For the most part, we, who could choose simplicity, choose complication.
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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Emergency rooms are closed, many hospital wards are as well leaving people who are sick with heart disease, trauma, pregnancy…
— Richard E. Besser
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