"Who says history is stagnant? For a historian, facts do not change; it is the way we look at things, our interpretations, that are always changing. This is what makes history exciting - that we can always find something new in what is old."

-- Ambeth R. Ocampo

#Looks Quotes #Way Quotes #Facts Quotes

“They say greatness skips a generation, but I think that's because the generation before helps too much.”
“Being blonde means people decide on sight that you are much prettier and nicer than you really are, just as Americans automatically add 10 points to someone's IQ when they hear an English accent. Fact.”
“What is becoming is honest, and whatever is honest must always be becoming.”
“The commander in the field is always right and the rear echelon is wrong, unless proved otherwise.”
“The lovely flowers embarrass me. They make me regret I am not a bee...”
“When you spend seven years with a group of people and suddenly you're not together, it's very jarring.”
“Eventually we must leave Earth-at least a certain number of our progeny must as our sun approaches the end of its solar life cycle. But just as terrestrial explorers have always led the way for settlers, this will also happen extraterrestrially. Earth is our cradle, not our final destiny.”

Source : Edgar Mitchell (2009). “The Way of the Explorer: An Apollo Astronaut's Journey Through the Material and Mystical Worlds: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.415, ReadHowYouWant.com
“My dream, I remember, when I went to boarding school, was to have a study all my own, a little nook someplace where nobody could get at me - nobody, like the football coach.”

Source : Interview with John Ashbery, www.dalkeyarchive.com. 1987.

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