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I just read an 800-page history of the Scottish Enlightenment and,

I just read an 800-page history of the Scottish Enlightenment and, honestly, I may as well just start it again now, because I cannot remember a single thing. I can barely remember where Scotland is. – Hugh Laurie

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I admit I cant shake the idea that there is virtue in suffering, that there is a sort of psychic economy, whereby if you embrace success, happiness and comfort, these things have to be paid for. – Hugh Laurie

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Seems to me that this business, for actors anyway, is not so much about whether or not you do good work. Its about whether or not you get the chance to do good work. – Hugh Laurie

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I feel like Im working on an oil rig right now. Im away from home a lot. – Hugh Laurie

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In studying history we are finding out about ourselves, and in the last resort the natural sciences and even mathematics have the same final end. – Vivian Hunter Galbraith, An Introduction to the Study of History

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What is history but a fable agreed upon? – Napoleon Bonaparte

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Knowledge of history frees us to be contemporary. – Lynn White, Jr.

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In any case, his judgment and set of values, acting alone or through his assistants, determine not only what is gold and what is dross but the design of the history which he creates out of the metal. The historian decides what is significant, and what is not. – Samuel E. Morison

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Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles. – Jawaharlal Nehru

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