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The spoken word is man's physician in grief. For this alone has soothing charms for the soul.

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The spoken word is man's physician in grief. For this alone has soothing charms for the soul.

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Culture makes all men gentle.

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Even God lends a hand to honest boldness.

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He who labors diligently need never despair for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.

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Even God lends a hand to honest boldness.

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You can’t observe historical events; you can’t question historical actors; you can’t even know most of what has not been written about. What has been written about therefore takes on an importance that may be spurious. A few lines in a memoir, a snatch of recorded conversation, a letter fortuitously preserved, an event noted in a diary: all become luminous with significance—even though they are merely the bits that have floated to the surface. The historian clings to them, while, somewhere below, the huge submerged wreck of the past sinks silently out of sight.

Louis Menand
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There is history the way Tolstoy imagined it, as a great, slow-moving weather system in which even tsars and generals are just leaves before the storm. And there is history the way Hollywood imagines it, as a single story line in which the right move by the tsar or the wrong move by the general changes everything. Most of us, deep down, are probably Hollywood people. We like to invent “what if” scenarios--what if x had never happened, what if y had happened instead?--because we like to believe that individual decisions make a difference: that, if not for x, or if only there had been y, history might have plunged forever down a completely different path. Since we are agents, we have an interest in the efficacy of agency.

Louis Menand
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Anxiety is the price tag on human freedom

Louis Menand
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For his mourners will be outcast menAnd outcasts always mourn...

Oscar Wilde
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if you eat menand still feel like you’re starving, you’re craving something that they cannot give.

K.Y. Robinson
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