"History is what we bring to it, not just the events themselves, but how we interpret those events."

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Source : "Drawing Parallels Between Ancient Rome and the U.S. Today". Interview with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. November 22, 2006.

Robert Harris

“Terror is the instinct that tells you to run, dear God, run, she murmured. Run for your life. But it just makes you into meat. Predators take the ones who run. Horror is the mind-thing, the worm of knowledge you can't stop turning over no matter how awful it is. It grows in your mind and destroys you by your own intelligence.”

Source : Kat Richardson (2009). “Vanished: A Greywalker Novel”, p.136, Penguin
“Help me by whatever you are pleased to do in your provinces.”
“I think food trucks are the new answer to American fast food. The idea of raising two or three million dollars and going through red tape to open a restaurant, there's lots of barriers to success. There's a really easy jumping place for food trucks. It's very hip and acceptable for new chefs to open a food truck first.”

Source : "Q&A With Tyler Florence, Host of the Food Network’s Great Food Truck Race". Interview with Sarah Bennett, www.dmagazine.com. November 30, 2012.
“I was crying and laughing, snuffing tears and blood, bumping at him with my bound hands, trying awkwardly to thrust them at him so that he could cut the rope. He quit grappling, and clutched me so hard against him that I yelped in pain as my face was pressed against his plaid. He was saying something else, urgently, but I couldnâ€™t manage to translate it. Energy pulsed through him, hot and violent, like the current in a live wire, and I vaguely realized that he was still almost berserk; he had no English.”
“If wrong decisions, both from a governance perspective and ethics, happen, this is a slippery slope that we will go down. Unless and until you recognise this, you will not take the right decisions.”

Source : Source: zeenews.india.com
“There are certain artists and filmmakers who, I get the impression, are trying to show off how bad their characters can be, how immoral their characters can be.”

Source : Interview with Nicole Rudick, believermag.com. October 1, 2007.
“Whether you go to Turkey or Mexico, China or Australia, find time to involve yourself with the people you're dealing with.”
“The best way to navigate through life is to give up all of our controls.”

Source : Gerald G. Jampolsky, Diane V. Cirincione (1992). “Wake-Up Calls”, Hay House Incorporated

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