The mists remain of the false glory that erupts from history. – Miguel de Unamuno, En Gredos
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The process of making natural history films is to try to prevent the animal knowing you are there, so you get glimpses of a non-human world, and that is a transporting thing. – David Attenborough
No one can really know the life of his own day, let alone that of times long past. Always the historian sees as in a mirror darkly, the reds and the golds rendered drab by the shadows of time. – Earl R. Beck, On Teaching History in Colleges and Universities
Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic. – Bertrand Russell
Look I eat really well and I work out, but I also indulge when I want to. I dont starve myself in an extremist way. Youre not taking away my coffee or my dairy or my glass of wine because Id be devastated. – Jennifer Aniston
