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The historian must have some c...

The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius.

Edward Forster 502 quotes

We are willing enough to prais...

We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship.

Edward Forster 502 quotes

Unless we remember we cannot u...

Unless we remember we cannot understand.

Edward Forster 502 quotes

The idea that nations should l...

The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard --it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.

Edward Forster 502 quotes

As long as learning is connect...

As long as learning is connected with earning, as long as certain jobs can only be reached through exams, so long must we take this examination system seriously. If another ladder to employment was contrived, much so-called education would disappear, and no one would be a penny the stupider.

Edward Forster 502 quotes

Faith, to my mind, is a stiffe...

Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch, which ought to be applied as sparingly as possible.

Edward Forster 502 quotes

Logic! Good gracious! What rub...

Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish! How can I tell what I think till I see what I say?

Edward Forster 502 quotes

Our life on earth is, and ough...

Our life on earth is, and ought to be, material and carnal. But we have not yet learned to manage our materialism and carnality properly; they are still entangled with the desire for ownership.

Edward Forster 502 quotes

Ideas are fatal to caste....

Ideas are fatal to caste.

Edward Forster 502 quotes

The more highly public life is...

The more highly public life is organized the lower does its morality sink.

Edward Forster 502 quotes

Tolerance is a very dull virtu...

Tolerance is a very dull virtue. It is boring. Unlike love, it has always had a bad press. It is negative. It merely means putting up with people, being able to stand things.

Edward Forster 502 quotes

We are not concerned with the ...

We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet.

Edward Forster 502 quotes

Lord I disbelieve -- help thou...

Lord I disbelieve -- help thou my unbelief.

Edward Forster 502 quotes

Railway termini are our gates ...

Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass out into adventure and sunshine, to them, alas! we return.

Edward Forster 502 quotes

How can I know what I think ti...

How can I know what I think till I see what I say?

Edward Forster 502 quotes

There lies at the back of ever...

There lies at the back of every creed something terrible and hard for which the worshipper may one day be required to suffer.

Edward Forster 502 quotes

Beauty ought to look a little ...

Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face. The beauty who does not look surprised, who accepts her position as her due -- she reminds us too much of a prima donna.

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If I had to choose between bet...

If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.

Edward Forster 502 quotes

America is rather like life. Y...

America is rather like life. You can usually find in it what you look for. It will probably be interesting, and it is sure to be large.

Edward Forster 502 quotes

Towns are excrescences, gray f...

Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.

Edward Forster 502 quotes

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....