"Like the philosopher, the author views his task as one of establishing a clear connection between life and history, and of making the past bear fruit for the present and future."

Life, History, Connection, Future

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"Like the philosopher, the author views his task as one of establishing a clear connection between life and history, and of making the past bear fruit for the present and future."

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"The condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"Instead of clinging to the only Lifeboat that can save, we have tossed overboard biblical truths in the name of [compromise], living on the edge of life, like the man who rides the parameter of a hurricane, daring it to sweep him away."

Billy Graham, American Clergyman

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"There is always a path to our target, the problem is to discover it!"

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"Collect memories, they are your precious property."

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"From a cleansed conscience emerges a changed life."

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"Simple things have greater power than the complicated things!"

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"If he did not speak his tale, it grew dank and musty, it shrank inside him, while with the telling the tale stayed fresh and virtuous."

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"I am born to win."

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"Abundance in life comes from generosity."

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"To live in bliss, love everything, including people, unconditionally."

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"What is a historian, anyway? It is someone who uses facts to record the development of humanity."

Development, Facts, Humanity

"Ever since my youth it has disturbed me that of the literary works that survived their own epoch, so many dealt with historical rather than contemporary subjects."

Reflection, Literary, Youth

"An action doesn't have to be wrong just because it is not logical. It doesn't have to be right just because it has its logic."

Action, Logic, Right, Wrong

"I should add that it is open to debate whether what we call the writing of history these days is truly scientific."

History, Debate, Open, Writing

"Both the historian and the novelist view history as the struggle of a tiny minority, able and determined to make judgments, which is up against a vast and densely packed majority of the blind, who are led by their instincts and unable to think for themselves."

History, Blind, Majority, Minority

"I have always made an effort to render every detail of my reality with the greatest accuracy; but I have never paid attention to whether my presentation of historical facts was an exact one."

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"After closely examining my conscience, I venture to state that in my historical novels I intended the content to be just as modern and up-to-date as in the contemporary ones."

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"There's only a step from the sublime to the ridiculous, but there's no road leading from the ridiculous to the sublime."

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"From depicting the past, so goes the suspicion, it is a short step to glorifying the past."

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"Like the philosopher, the author views his task as one of establishing a clear connection between life and history, and of making the past bear fruit for the present and future."

Life, History, Connection, Future