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Edmund Morgan Quotes

The three hundredth anniversary of the Salem witch trials of 1692 comes at a time when witchcraft commands a scholarly attention that would have been puzzling in 1892 or even in 1792.

Edmund Morgan

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: historian
Nationality: american
Birth: January 17, 1916 - July 8, 2013

Topics

Time Anniversary Attention Three

The movement of search can only be from the known to the known, and all that the mind can do is to be aware that this movement will never uncover the unknown. Any movement on the part of the known is still within the field of the known.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Mind Search Will Never Movement

Trust him not with your secrets, who, when left alone in your room, turns over your papers.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

Alone Trust Secrets Him Over Room

It's nice to sometimes get things out of life, rather than stealing from other artists. I'm trying to steal from the real people.

John Hawkes

Life People Trying Nice Sometimes

I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither vanity nor wisdom one filled with hatreds cannot be vain, neither can he be wise.

John Keats

Wisdom Man Wise Proud You Vanity

I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone.

John Updike

Love Alone Government Me Least

It's important to every American that the law protect his or her basic liberty.

Stephen Breyer

Law American Liberty Important Her

I think I enlist comedy to a serious purpose.

Tom Stoppard

Purpose Think Comedy Serious I Think

I would listen to something on the radio and try to tap out the melody, then the harmonies.

Michel Legrand

Try Listen Radio Out Something Tap

I don't always do a lot of predicting, but, when I get a really strong feeling about something, I will tell people.

Michael Johnson

People Strong Feeling Will Tell Get

It was so much fun to work with the cast on 'School of Rock'. I was a little nervous because it was my first acting gig, but it was such a great experience.

Daya

Work Great Experience School Fun

At thirteen, I accompanied my mother to the Hawaiian Islands. There, for the first time, I saw the wonder of a steamship and the vastness of the ocean. From that time on, I was eager to acquire the knowledge of the West and to fathom the mysteries of nature.

Sun Yat-sen

Nature Mother Knowledge Time Ocean

The Industrial Age is not sustainable. It's not sustainable in ecological terms, and it's not sustainable in human terms.

Peter Senge

Age Human Industrial Sustainable