"Each age tries to form its own conception of the past. Each age writes the history of the past anew with reference to the conditions uppermost in its own time."

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Source : Frederick Jackson Turner, Martin Ridge (1993). “History, Frontier, and Section: Three Essays”

Frederick Jackson Turner

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“The 'Tarahumara' use their legs 'as designed.' By running at a young age with minimal footwear, they naturally develop the best biomechanical use of their legs. Cushioned shoes restrict foot movements and allow for over-striding. Short strides are natural.”
“As things now stand, the office is a slightly meaner battleground than the home. Male bosses seem to dominate their women underlings as they would never dominate their wives.”
“In the New York Times, you're going to get completely different information than you would in the USA Today.”
“Timidity can be as dangerous as rashness.”

Source : Poul Anderson (2003). “Going For Infinity: A Literary Journey”, p.20, Macmillan
“Is there a single person on whom I can press belief? No sir. All I can do is say, Here's how it went. Here's what I saw. I've been there and am going back. Make of it what you will.”

Source : Leif Enger (2001). “Peace Like a River”, Atlantic Monthly Press
“It is in the irony of things that the theatre should be the most dangerous place for the actor. But, then, after all, the world is the worst possible place, the most corrupting place, for the human soul. And just as there is no escape from the world, which follows us into the very heart of the desert, so the actor cannot escape the theatre. And the actor who is a dreamer need not. All of us can only strive to remain uncontaminated. In the world we must be unworldly, in the theatre the actor must be untheatrical.”
“The welfare culture tells the man he is not a necessary part of the family; he feels dispensable, his wife knows he is dispensable, his children sense it.”

Source : George Gilder (2012). “Wealth and Poverty: A New Edition for the Twenty-First Century”, p.171, Regnery Publishing
“One of the most violent attacks on the Church in the Soviet Union was under Kruschev when, during a period of economic and political liberalization, he attacked the Church to demonstrate to old Party members that he hadn't lost it.”

Source : "Towards hope". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. July 18, 2014.

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