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“It is not possible to completely eliminate mediation between you as an observer and the history you are trying to understand.”

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I don't believe in reducing a style and a voice down to a set of descriptions, so I've never done that.

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People who are ambitious - politicians who crave power - think that they're in control of it, but at some point, the movement that…

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“My goal is to act as a faithful interpreter, preserving as much of the original's nuances of meaning as possible without embellishment or omission.…

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“It’s hard to hear the music behind the words when their meanings get in the way,” she told me once.”

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The 'silk' in silkpunk refers not to a source of power, but to an entirely different, expressive technology language.

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“A memory is a re-creation, precious because it is both more and less than the original.”

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Almost all of my stories can be understood to be elaborations on our drive to remake the world and our adjustments to the result.

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“Dad and I went on walking, our shadows touching.”

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“I can only wish that someday you’ll also be pestered by a student as persistent to learn what you do not wish to teach.”

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I think male authors who want to try to tackle these issues of representation of women can generally do a better job if they…

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“Surveillance is surveillance. I can never understand why some people think it matters whether it's the government doing it to you or a company.”

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Whenever you talk about Chinese dragons, emperors, palaces, concubines - they conjure up a whole colonial argle-bargle that has nothing to do with historical…

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Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat…

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It is said that history turns on small hinges. A human career, too, results from an accumulating series of decisions about large and small…

Norman Vincent Peale

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The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records…

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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In the entire history of the universe, let alone in your own history, there has never been another day just like today, and there…

Frederick Buechner

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The NBA is my history.

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History has often showed us the strength of the forces that are unleashed by the yearning for freedom. It moved people to overcome their…

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We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what…

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What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end.

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Things live and die, and then someone processes them into edible portions. This is a complete telling of the story, 'Food.' The basic plot…

David Fahrenthold

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History is a certain way, but you just change the point of view a little bit, and you discover a whole new side of…

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We're at a point in history were we have to become a part of the neighborhood of inhabited planets, like a neighborhood of a…

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Today is a reality, tomorrow's a promise, and yesterday's history!

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