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“To me, history ought to be a source of pleasure. It isn't just part of our civic responsibility. To me, it's an enlargement of the experience of being alive, just the way literature or art or music is."
[The Title Always Comes Last; NEH 2003 Jefferson Lecturer interview profile]”
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[The Title Always Comes Last; NEH 2003 Jefferson Lecturer interview profile]”
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“If you want to learn about the beauty of our humanity and about the dignity of a human being, you study the arts. That is what mankind has left behind to acknowledge his mere existence on this Earth. We're the only creature alive that does that.”
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“History is a creative process (or as Napoleon Bonaparte once said, “a set of lies agreed upon”). The world happens as it happens, but we construct what we remember and what we forget. And people will eventually do that to us, too.”
― But What If We're Wrong?: Thinking about the Present as If It Were the Past
― But What If We're Wrong?: Thinking about the Present as If It Were the Past
“It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea.”
― The Illuminati Papers
― The Illuminati Papers
Boardwalk Empire
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This is a group for fans of the Boardwalk Empire TV series on HBO. We will discuss each episode as they air as well as related books and past seasons. ...more
Book Addicts
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— last activity Dec 17, 2013 04:42PM
This started as a book discussion group for the staff of Crystal City 47 School District. It has developed into a small group of teachers that are or ...more
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