"The trouble with American History is that you don't remember it, and why should you? Nobody does."

-- Barbara Holland

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“Sometimes standing against evil is more important than defeating it. The greatest heroes stand because it is right to do so, not because they believe they will walk away with their lives. Such selfless courage is a victory in itself.”

Source : N. D. Wilson (2009). “Dandelion Fire: Book 2 of the 100 Cupboards”, p.172, Random House Books for Young Readers
“The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.”
“I spent a lot of years on the road, and what happens is you find out who your real friends are and you find out where your strengths and weaknesses lie in communication. I've had the same friends for 20 years now and I can count them on one hand.”
“Really,' thought I, 'we call Baltimore the 'Monumental City' for its two marble columns, and here is Edinburg with one at every street-corner!”
“Man is a paradoxical being-the constant glory and scandal of this world.”
“Civilization is the way one's own people live. Savagery is the way foreigners live.”
“I wasn't a bad guy. I just wanted God to give me a second chance.”
“I went to drama school at New York University.”

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