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H. W. Brands Quotes

Every year, I have my graduate students read the great works of history, from classical times to the present. They gamely tackle Tacitus, ponder Plutarch, plow through Gibbon. Then they get to Thomas Carlyle and feel like Dorothy when she touched down in Technicolor Oz.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: historian
Nationality: american
Birth: August 7, 1953

Topics

History Great Present Feel Year She

Father knew me not. All my aspirations in life were a sealed book to him, as much as his peculiar religious experiences were to me.

Life Father Me Book Him Peculiar

For a time during the 1980s the Royal Family were not just the most influential family in Britain but probably in Europe and Prince Charles specifically was very much like a defacto Cabinet member and what he said actually had impact on public policy.

Family Time Impact Said Royal Just

Few can believe that suffering, especially by others, is in vain. Anything that is disagreeable must surely have beneficial economic effects.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Suffering Believe Others Anything

I think the bailouts in 2008 were wrong.

Think Wrong I Think Were

Only the person who has experienced light and darkness, war and peace, rise and fall, only that person has truly experienced life.

Life Light Darkness Peace War Fall

How else are we going to get anywhere if we can't talk to each other?

Talk Going Get Anywhere How Else

We're a very close family. Nothing changes.

Family Nothing Changes Close Very

This industry is too bonkers to understand. Every single part is completely different.

Understand Single Industry Different

For every failure, there's an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Failure Action You Find Take Just

There are a lot of folks who endorsed me that I would not want to see as president.

Me Want President See Would Who

Latency is very important when you think about autonomous cars and things like that - 5G will really change the game, and I think will be another spike of growth in the wireless industry.

Change Growth Game Think You Will

I went to a Chekhov play with my grandmother, and at the end, I was talking about how the first act was so boring. And my grandmother didn't see that at all. I realized it was because I need, like, the constant images changing. I wrote a paper about this.

End Talking Play Boring Grandmother

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