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People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history.
People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history.
The future has a way of arriving unannounced.
The future has a way of arriving unannounced.
I saw Chungking for the first time more than 40 years ago - a city of hills and mists, of read more
I saw Chungking for the first time more than 40 years ago - a city of hills and mists, of grays and lavenders, two rivers shaping it to a point and the cliff rising above me like a challenge.
Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story.
Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story.
Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense.
Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense.
No historian can take part with--or against--the forces he has to study. To him even the extinction of the human read more
No historian can take part with--or against--the forces he has to study. To him even the extinction of the human race should merely be a fact to be grouped with other vital statistics.
For historians ought to be precise, truthful, and quite unprejudiced, and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor affection, should cause read more
For historians ought to be precise, truthful, and quite unprejudiced, and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor affection, should cause them to swerve from the path of truth, whose mother is history, the rival of time, the depository of great actions, the witness of what is past, the example and instruction of the present, the monitor of the future.
Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.
Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.
