"History is full of really good stories. That's the main reason I got into this racket: I want to make the argument that history is interesting."

-- Sarah Vowell

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“It's much more acceptable for men to work and father kids. There's an inherent inequality, because we want to do it all, and I don't know how we can do this all.”
“If I profess with loudest voice and clearest exposition every portion of the truth of God except that little point which the world and the Devil are at that moment attacking, I am not confessing Christ, however boldly I may be professing Christ. Where the battle rages, there the loyalty of the soldier is proved, and to be steady on all the battlefield besides, is mere flight and disgrace if he flinches at that point.”
“When you get immersed in whatever you're writing, the world does suddenly get so filtered through what you're writing. And then of course what you're writing then filters the world right back.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Our curses on them that boil the eggs too hard! What use is an egg that is hard to any person on earth?”
“Only one form of contagion travels faster than a virus. And that's fear.”

Source : Dan Brown (2014). “Inferno: Special Illustrated Edition (Enhanced): Featuring Robert Langdon”, p.729, Knopf
“I think the rapidly growing tendency to regard animals as born for nothing except slavery to so-called humanity absolutely disgusting.”
“In my opinion, the Republican Party is the last on the list to care about the needs of old people and children and poor people.”
“No one nation can or should try to dominate another nation.”

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