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The passion for the past is clearly about more than market forces or government policies. History responds to a variety of needs, from greater understanding of ourselves and our world to answers about what to do. ”
How can even the best novelist or playwright invent someone like Augustus Caesar or Catherine the Great, Galileo or Florence Nightingale? How can screenwriters create better action stories or human dramas than exist, thousand upon thousand, throughout the many centuries of recorded history? ”
All businesses and jobs depend on a vast number of people, often unnoticed and unthanked, without which nothing really gets done. They are all human and deserve respect and gratitude. ”
As a mother, I work hard every day and I expect that work to be recognized and appreciated. Because I work for and with human beings, sometimes they're grateful and sometimes they aren't. ”
There's something really beautiful about science, that human beings can ask these questions and can answer them. You can make models of nature and understand how it works. ”
In the whole round of human affairs little is so fatal to peace as misunderstanding. ”
Every aspect of human technology has a dark side, including the bow and arrow. ”
Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children? ”
Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for whom death is not only necessary, but frequently even desirable. ”
Divine Nature gave the fields, human art built the cities. ”