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Nature takes one toll, malice another The idea is to inspire the quest, not insist upon an answer or promise an assured outcome. The subject is not that important. Carr, What Is History? It was pitched as a new public works project for the intellectual class, so many of us lately busy driving cars and delivering groceries and completing tasks on demand to make ends meet. Government jobs would put all those degrees to work and be comparatively lucrative.

The congresswoman envisioned a national network of fact-checkers and historians, a friendly citizen army devoted to making the truth so accessible and appealing it could not be ignored. Our historical record, we know, is subjective. Not every account is written down. The distinction between equity and injustice, riot and uprising, hinges on whose hand holds the pen. So often, it seems, our history is hiding from us, preventing the possibility that we dare look back and tell the truth--afraid of what doing so may require of us now.

Browse By Tag. Welcome back. Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. Henry David Thoreau "It is remarkable how closely the history of the apple tree is connected with that of man. Alexander Smith "I go into my library and all history unrolls before me. Robert Heinlein "A generation which ignores history has no past and no future. Marshall McLuhan "Only the vanquished remember history.

Mohandas Gandhi "A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.

Stephen Covey "Live out of your imagination, not your history. Martin Luther King, Jr. We are made by history. Dwight D. Eisenhower "Things have never been more like the way they are today in history. Actively scan device characteristics for identification.

Use precise geolocation data. Select personalised content. Create a personalised content profile. Measure ad performance. Select basic ads. Create a personalised ads profile. It is not so much a matter of escaping from one's suffering, though it may seem to be so.

It is a longing for home, for a memory of the mother, for new metaphors for life. It leads home. Every path leads homeward, every step is birth, every step is death, every grave is mother. So the tree rustles in the evening, when we stand uneasy before our own childish thoughts: Trees have long thoughts, long-breathing and restful, just as they have longer lives than ours. They are wiser than we are, as long as we do not listen to them. But when we have learned how to listen to trees, then the brevity and the quickness and the childlike hastiness of our thoughts achieve an incomparable joy.

Whoever has learned how to listen to trees no longer wants to be a tree. He wants to be nothing except what he is. That is home. That is happiness. Betrachtungen und Gedichte. Now here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead.

And it is as if a hand has come out and taken yours. You are a leaf that doesn't know it is part of a tree. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.

The curves of your lips rewrite history. The bamboozle has captured us. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back. When two cultures clash, the loser is obliterated, and the winner writes the history books-books which glorify their own cause and disparage the conquered foe. As Napoleon once said, 'What is history, but a fable agreed upon?

Patterns hidden by patterns. Patterns within patterns.