"History is the art of making an argument about the past by telling a story accountable to evidence. In the writing of history, a story without an argument fades into antiquarianism; an argument without a story risks pedantry. Writing history requires empathy, inquiry, and debate. It requires forswearing condescension, cant, and nostalgia. The past isnâ€™t quaint. Much of it, in fact, is bleak."

Source : Jill Lepore (2012). “The Story of America: Essays on Origins”, p.15, Princeton University Press

Jill Lepore

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“Ive realized that even more that what is beautiful about the accordion is to play with a single finger sometimes, with a very pure, very pointed sound that gives a lot of poetry and emotion.”
“I come from the liberal side of thinking: Better one guilty man should walk free than one innocent man found guilty.”

Source : "Why the Deadwood Guy Doesn't Care if NBC's Kings Makes Him More Famous". Interview with Jake Halpern, www.esquire.com. April 3, 2009.
“Wit implies hatred or contempt of folly and crime, produces its effects by brisk shocks of surprise, uses the whip of scorpions and the branding-iron, stabs, stings, pinches, tortures, goads, teases, corrodes, undermines.”
“It's really easy to complain. If you're not careful, then you end up complaining about your whole life. Concentrating on the good things is really good. Catch people doing good.”
“[Sport officials] blocked their support of us. But those individuals [ Muhammad Ali, the Jim Browns, the Bill Russells, Kareem Abdul Jabbar ] were old enough, they were wise enough, and they knew their history and this is why they came out in support of us, because they knew that we had our finger on the right move.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“There is no escaping from ourselves. The human dilemma is as it has always been, and we solve nothing fundamental by cloaking ourselves in technological glory.”
“God is not only true, but Truth itself.”

Source : Pope Leo XIII (1990). “A Light in the Heavens: Great Encyclical Letters of Pope Leo XIII”, p.36, TAN Books
“I find linseed oil and white lead the most satisfactory mediums.”

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