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No, this customary aim of research by excavators is completely foreign to the historical work with which I am occupied... my sole and only aim is to be able to establish a historical fact, on which I disagree with some eminent historians and geographers. ↗

— Heinrich Schliemann

#aim #am #completely #customary #disagree

Looking back, I'm almost happy I lost that fight. Just imagine if I would have come back to Germany with a victory. I had nothing to do with the Nazis, but they would have given me a medal. After the war I might have been considered a war criminal. ↗

— Max Schmeling

#almost #back #been #come #considered

The movies we love and admire are to some extent a function of who we are when we see them. ↗

— Mary Schmich

#admire #extent #function #love #see

I couldn't have foreseen all the good things that have followed my mother's death. The renewed energy, the surprising sweetness of grief. The tenderness I feel for strangers on walkers. The deeper love I have for my siblings and friends. The desire to play the mandolin. The gift of a visitation. ↗

— Mary Schmich

#deeper #desire #energy #feel #followed

A line from one of my 1997 columns - 'Do one thing every day that scares you' - is now widely attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt, though I have yet to see any evidence that she ever said it and I don't believe she did. She said some things about fear, but not that thing. ↗

— Mary Schmich

#any #attributed #believe #columns #day

Good art is art that allows you to enter it from a variety of angles and to emerge with a variety of views. ↗

— Mary Schmich

#angles #art #emerge #enter #good

Linda Tripp has shown that a true friend is an archivist, a biographer. ↗

— Mary Schmich

#biographer #friend #linda #shown #tripp

I have a group of four or five friends that I consider my friends and best friends and people that I want to hold onto for the rest of my life. ↗

— Kyle Schmid

#consider #five #four #friends #group

Switzerland is part of the fight against terrorism. There is no neutrality against this threat. ↗

— Samuel Schmid

#fight #neutrality #part #switzerland #terrorism

The best thing I can think of would be to create a union between something as beautiful and powerful and wonderful as Hollywood films and a criticism of the status quo. That's my dream, to make such a German film. ↗

— Rainer W. Fassbinder

#best #between #create #criticism #dream