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Then I realized my early work did have something special that audiences adored apart from what I humbly thought about them. They occupy a distinguished niche in Italian film history and probably always will.


Dario Argento


#adored #always #apart #audiences #did

Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.


Aristotle


#hence #history #import #more #nature

If I were beginning my career today, I don't think I would take the same direction. Television is at a crossroads at the moment. And although I am not up to date technologically, I suspect that somewhere out there people are conveying things about natural history by means other than television, and I think if I were beginning today, I'd be there.


David Attenborough


#although #am #beginning #career #conveying

In the old days... it was a basic, cardinal fact that producers didn't have opinions. When I was producing natural history programmes, I didn't use them as vehicles for my own opinion. They were factual programmes.


David Attenborough


#cardinal #days #fact #factual #history

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


#films #get #glimpses #history #human world

With each new book, the march of our national history takes a step forward. When one is present at a book launch, one is bearing witness to the birth of a new body of ideas, to the coming into being of another testimony of history.


Ibrahim Babangida


#bearing #being #birth #body #book

This is what happens, when, for the first time in modern history, a candidate resorts to lawsuits to try to overturn the outcome of an election for president.


James Baker


#election #first #first time #happens #history

A day spent praising the earth and lamenting man's pollutionist history makes you feel like a superior, sensitive soul.


Russell Baker


#earth #feel #history #like #makes

The making of an American begins at the point where he himself rejects all other ties, any other history, and himself adopts the vesture of his adopted land.


James Baldwin


#american #any #begins #himself #his

Prior to an individual's encounter with the love of God at a particular time in history, however, there has to be another, more fundamental and archetypal encounter, which belongs to the conditions of possibility of the appearance of divine love to man.


Hans Urs von Balthasar


#appearance #archetypal #belongs #conditions #divine






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