“In the reinterpretation of ‘Germanic’ archaeology I have benefited from discussions with, and the encouragement of fellow-subversives... vive la re´volution!”

— Guy Halsall

Source: Quotaes, Barbarian Migrations and the Roman West, 376–568 (2007), p. xv

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Pope Francis (1936) 266th Pope of the Catholic Church

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“I met him Kandinsky shortly after my return to Germany from the United Sates. At first, I lived for a while in Bonn... A year later, in 1901, I decided to move to Munich, but still found very little encouragement as an artist. German painters refused to believe that a woman could have real talent, and I was even denied access, as a student, to the Munich Academy... It is significant that the first Munich artist who took the trouble to encourage me was Kandinsky, himself no German but a recent arrival from Russia.”

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“Satan has his companions, fellow-devils, to admire and encourage him; but I am solitary and detested.”

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“Publicity, discussion, and agitation are necessary to accomplish any work of lasting benefit.”

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“Open discussions and disagreements must be encouraged, so that all sides of an issue are fully explored.”

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Context: One must create the ability in his staff to generate clear, forceful arguments for opposing viewpoints as well as for their own. Open discussions and disagreements must be encouraged, so that all sides of an issue are fully explored.

“It is indisputable that the blacks have benefited from certain benefits of civilization.”

Albert I of Belgium (1875–1934) third King of the Belgians

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