At 11, 12 I thought I was clumsy, ugly, a mess, an unappealing person, but I did have … - Simon Schama

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Cosmologists are often in error, but never in doubt

Simon Schama

At 11, 12 I thought I was clumsy, ugly, a mess, an unappealing person, but I did have the gift of the gab. I had the school record at Haberdashers for consecutive detentions for simply speaking out of turn.

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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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In the end, history, especially British history with its succession of thrilling illuminations, should be, as all her most accomplished narrators have promised, not just instruction but pleasure.

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Charles was constitutionally incapable of being a constitutional monarch.

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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 time I saw a ballpark. I'd thought nothing would ever replace cricket. Wow! Fenway Park at 7 o'clock in the evening. Oh, just, magic beyond magic: never got over that

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The next worse thing to a battle lost is a battle won.

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Why was the human race created? Or at least why wasn't something creditable created in place of it? God had His opportunity. He could have made a reputation. But no, He must commit this grotesque folly - a lark which must have cost Him a regret or two when He came to think it over and observe effects.

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Albert Einstein

It is little short of a miracle that modern methods of instruction have not already completely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry. . . . I believe that one could even deprive a healthy beast of prey of its voraciousness if one could force it with a whip to eat continuously whether it were hungry or not.

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Moncure D. Conway

It is the darling delusion of mankind that the world is progressive in religion, toleration, freedom, as it is progressive in machinery.

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Cosmologists are often in error, but never in doubt

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How great musicians demonstrate a mutual respect and trust on the bandstand can alter your outlook on the world and enrich every aspect of your life, understanding what it means to be a global citizen in the most modern sense.

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