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“fortes et strenuos etiam contra fortunam insistere, timidos et ignoros ad desperationem formidine properare - the brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair through fear alone”
― Tacitus

“History is the queen of the humanities. It teaches wisdom and humility, and it tells us how things change through time.”
― Gordon S. Wood

“I find it hard to describe what it is like to look fully into eyes that one has known that well--known better than one knows the look of one's own eyes, actually--and then put away, deliberately forgotten. That instantly reasserted intimacy, that resumption of what looks like friendly concern, is like nakedness, like exposure.”
― Wallace Stegner, Angle of Repose

“His mouth is full of ecology, his mind is full of fumes.”
― Wallace Stegner, Angle of Repose