"…The story of the Pledge of Allegiance and its National Socialist roots is a fascinating one. Dr. Rex Curry, a passionate libertarian, has made the issue his white whale."
Jonah Goldberg
"Literature is integrated, and I'm not just talking about color or race. I'm talking about the power of literature to make us recognize - and again and again - the wholeness of the human experience."
Ralph Ellison
"The study of history requires investigation, imagination, empathy, and respect. Reverence just doesn't enter into it."
Jill Lepore
"At this moment, I saw more clearly than ever the brutalizing effects of slavery upon the slave and slaveholder."
Frederick Douglass
"The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living."
W. H. Auden
"I think I exist, therefore I exist. I think."
David Gerrold
"In a time when society is drowning in tsunamis of misinformation, it is possible to change the world for the better if we repeat the truth often and loud enough."
Alberto Cairo
"The only stirrups I like are on a saddle."
Donna Lynn Hope
"My ignorance is essential. I do not write what I know but what I need to know."
Don Murray
"All the world knew that a maester forged his silver link when he learned the art of healing—but the world preferred to forget that men who knew how to heal also knew how to kill."
George R.R. Martin
"The manner of your speaking is full as important as the matter as more people have ears to be tickled than understandings to judge."
Lord Chesterfield
"A library bears similar qualities to a hospital. Librarians are like doctors, books the prescriptions."
Trudy Wallis
"Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last."
Greg Evans
"To be conscientious. You must first be conscious."
Akiroq Brost
"I suppose the spiritual trance is harder to break than the religious one because the delusion is more difficult to distinguish. You have a quasi-cloud of ideas that include wonderful concepts of openness and altruism without the blatant anthropomorphism of religion."
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