"The past is dead, and nothing that we can choose to believe about it can harm or benefit those who were alive in it. On the other hand, it has the power to harm us."

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Source : Anthony Terence Quincey Stewart (2001). “The Shape of Irish History”

Anthony Terence Quincey Stewart

#Believe Quotes #Past Quotes #Hands Quotes

“It was when reporters became journalists and when objectivity gave way to searching for truth, that an aura of distrust and fear arose around the New Journalist.”
“Learn to love the data and, for heaven's sake, write well.”
“If mankind were only just what they pretend to be, the problem of the millennium would be immediately solved.”
“Nothing goes further toward a man's liberation than the act of surviving his need for character.”
“Love is at once more animal than friendship and more divine ...”
“I like being challenged. That's the only way you grow.”
“I listen to the gunfire we cannot hear, and begin this journey with the light of knowing the root of my own furious love.”

Source : Joy Harjo (1990). “In Mad Love and War”, p.25, Wesleyan University Press
“I have like 10 different processes I go to. My favorite one is to just go to an obscure neighborhood I haven't been to in decades and just wander around.”

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