Real history is far more complex and interesting than the simplistic summaries presented in Wikipedia articles. Knowing this allows you to question received wisdom, to challenge 'facts' 'everybody' knows to be true, and to imagine worlds and characters worthy of our rich historical heritage and our complex selves.
Sometimes I feel like we're a knot, too tangled to be taken apart.
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Kiera Cass
Isn’t it queer: there are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before; like the larks in this country, that have been singing the same five notes over for thousands of years.
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Willa Cather
Learning the truth has become my life's love.
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Dan Brown
I am not a victim. No matter what I have been through, I'm still here. I have a history of victory.
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Steve Maraboli
It is better to fill your head with useless knowledge than no knowledge at all.
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Jim Hinckley
More Quotes By Ken Liu
The fact that we can never have complete, perfect knowledge does not absolve us of the moral duty to judge and to take a stand against evil.
We are not defined by our individual loneliness, but by the web of relationships in which we’re enmeshed.
The Allatians believe that they have a writing system superior to all others. Unlike books written in alphabets, syllabaries, or logograms, an Allatian book captures not only words, but also the writer’s tone, voice, inflection, emphasis, intonation, rhythm. It is simultaneously a score and a...
Do you see how much power you have when you act without fear?
