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"The historian's job is to aggrandize, promoting accident to inevitability and innocuous circumstance to portent."
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"The historian's job is to aggrandize, promoting accident to inevitability and innocuous circumstance to portent."

"Some directors expect you to do everything; write, be producer, psychiatrist. Some just want you to die in a tragic accident during the shooting so they can get the insurance."

"What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will be a thousand princes; there is only one Beethoven."

"There are hundreds of millions of gun owners in this country, and not one of them will have an accident today. The only misuse of guns comes in environments where there are drugs, alcohol, bad parents, and undisciplined children. Period."

"Now between the meanings of words and their sounds there is ordinarily no discoverable relation except one of accident; and it is therefore miraculous, to the mystic, when words which make sense can also make a uniform objective structure of accents and rhymes."

"Even though things happen by accident, you also unconsciously choose things that help you."
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"The historian's job is to aggrandize, promoting accident to inevitability and innocuous circumstance to portent."

"All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it, an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes through it; a point of view."
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