Phil Bova

“Why should you believe your eyes? You were given eyes to see with, not to believe with. Your eyes can see the mirage, the hallucination as easily as the actual scenery.”
― Ward Moore, Bring the Jubilee

“The historian, on the contrary, cannot experiment and can rarely observe. Instead, the historian has to collect his own evidence, knowing, all the while, that some of it is useless and much of it unreliable."
-Professor Charles Homer Haskins”
― Jill Lepore

“They hold the throne in their hand. The whole realm is in their hand. The country, the apportioning of men's livelihoods is in their hand...The springs of hope and of fear are in their hand...In their hand is the power to decide who shall be humbled and who exalted...Our people is in their hand, education is in their hand...If the West continues to be what it is, and the East what it is, we shall see the day when the whole world is in their hand.”
― Akbar Illahabadi

“No matter what anybody tells you, words and ideas can change the world.”
― Tom Schulman, Dead Poets Society