"Clio may be the most austere and chaste of the Muses, but she has been known to come down informally from Mount Helicon in a mood so raffish that there are those who claim to have seen her with her slip showing."

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Source : Willis Thornton (1992). “History: Facts and Fable”, Dorset Pr

Thornton Willis

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“All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
“My comments are reserved for reputable journalists.”
“I'm a big believer in that old cliché of thinking globally and acting locally.”
“I think the real bargains are what they would call the smaller, ignored and unloved companies.”
“I want my music to be something that people use in order to access parts of themselves. So in that sense, every piece I write is about all emotions at once, about the lines in between. It's never only about one thing or another. It's emotionally getting at those things that we can't really describe - things for which we don't have labels. So yes, it's about something, and it has a use. It's neither about nothing nor about something concrete - it's about what you bring to it as a listener.”
“Kids are overprogrammed these days.”
“When you get to the point where Baghdad is basically isolated, then what is the situation you have in the country? .. You have a country that Baghdad no longer controls; that whatever's happening inside Baghdad is almost irrelevant compared to what's going on in the rest of the country.”
“We're all in the same game, just different levels. Dealing with the same hell, just different devils.”

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