[H]istory is a melodrama on the theme of parasitism, characterized by scenes that are exciting or dull, as the case may be, and many a sudden stagetrick. – Max Nordau, The Interpretation of History
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Things have never been more like the way they are today in history. – Dwight D. Eisenhower
Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend. – Francis Bacon
In the history of the treatment of depression, there was the dunking stool, purging of the bowels of black bile, hoses, attempts to shock the patient. All of these represent hatred or aggression towards what depression represents in the patient. – James Hillman
I really like having a life outside work. I sometimes wish I did more career stuff and was in that Hollywood scene a bit more. But Torontos my home. – Rachel McAdams
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