"History was a series of decisions about what to tell and a series of accidents about what survived after telling. Not truth, but a historian could search for truth, and the search was as worthy as any other human activity."

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Source : David Drake (2009). “Patriots”, p.39, Baen Publishing Enterprises

David Drake

#Decision Quotes #Worthy Quotes #Historian Quotes

“It's not an endlessly expanding list of rights - the "right" to education, the "right" to health care, the "right" to food and housing. That's not freedom, that's dependency. Those aren't rights, those are the rations of slavery - hay and a barn for human cattle.”
“Alvin Plantinga is arguably the greatest philosopher of the last century.”
“Hopeful men do not die so easily ...”
“I grew up on 'Lost.' I was 17 when I started, and I did it for four or five years, on and off.”

Source : "Tania Raymonde Talks MTV’s DEATH VALLEY and THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE 3D". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 11, 2011.
“I would take today's joy, and tomorrow's. I would take it with both hands, anywhere it came.”
“If it were true that men could achieve their good by means of turning some men into sacrificial animals, and . . . if I were asked to serve the interests of society apart from, above and against my own I would refuse. . . . I would fight in the full confidence of the justice of my battle and of a living being's right to exist.”
“My father was able to play a number of musical instruments and I fell in love with classical music in my teens and I allowed it to influence me. I like to think I took and still do from classical music and various techniques, I have made classical albums and recorded seven different pieces of Bach on different albums and its all music too me.”
“The simple tableau is so rich with meaning that whether represented on the mantelpiece or in the mind, it seems suspended, complete unto itself, somewhere in eternity.”

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