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“Sound drums and trumpets! Farewell sour annoy! For here, I hope, begins our lasting joy.”
“History is a hammock for swinging and a game for playing.”
“Patricia embraces me on the station platform. 'The past is what you leave behind in life, Ruby,' she says with the smile of a reincarnated lama. 'Nonsense, Patricia,' I tell her as I climb on board...”
“History repeats itself. That's one of the things wrong with history.”
“There are ghosts of yourself scattered everywhere,Whispers of a moment suspended in time,Where every life that you've brushed up againstNow lives with a piece of you trapped in their mind.”
“Four rehabs meant a fifth was somewhere down the road.”
“Nations should be governed by a council of learned men who must answer to the people for their actions.”
“Are you aware that humanity is just a blip? Not even a blip. Just a fraction of a fraction of what the universe has been and will become? Talk about perspective. I figure I can't feel so entirely s...”
“History is not usually what has happened. History is what some people have thought to be significant.”
“I am convinced that human history has not yet begun, that we find ourselves in the last period of the prehistoric.”
“If you divide the world into them and us, and history into ours and theirs, or if you think of history as something only you and your affiliates possess, then no matter what you know, no matter how...”
“Will history remember us, I wonder? I do hope so - to imagine that one might do something, touch an event somehow, & thereby transcend the bounds of a single human lifetime!”
“It has been said that although God cannot alter the past, historians can --it is perhaps because they can be useful to Him in this respect that He tolerates their existence.”
“Grandmother's knee is a wonderful place to learn about the Bible, ghosts, and even Santa Claus, but a mighty poor place to learn about history.”
“Mark Twain once said that history doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme.”
“In the end I believe the essential spirit that animates those places animates me. If that spirit is God, then I found God...If that spirit is life, then I found life...If that spirit is awe, then I...”
“The land flourished because it was fed from so many sources--because it was nourished by so many cultures and traditions and peoples.”
“The mind is a powerful thing. It can take you through walls.”
“In North Carolina, I stopped to gas up at a Humble Oil station, then walked around the corner to use the toilet. There were two doors and three signs. MEN was neatly stenciled over one door, LADIES...”
“To understand history,' Chacko said, 'we have to go inside and listen to what they're saying. And look at the books and the pictures on the wall. And smell the smells.”
