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Art arises when the secret vision of the artist and the manifestation of nature agree to find new shapes.

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Old reference books are like tree rings. Without them, there'd be no way to know what a tree had lived through.

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When carrying a concealed weapon for self-defense is understood NOT as a failure of civil society, to be mourned, but as an act of citizenship, to be vaunted, there is little civilian life left.

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History is the art of making an argument about the past by telling a story accountable to evidence. In the writing of history, a story without an argument fades into antiquarianism; an argument without a story risks pedantry. Writing history requires empathy, inquiry, and debate. It requires forswearing condescension, cant, and nostalgia. The past isn’t quaint. Much of it, in fact, is bleak.

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The study of history requires investigation, imagination, empathy, and respect. Reverence just doesnt enter into it.

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History is a long and endlessly interesting argument, where evidence is everything and storytelling is everything else.

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Mainly, the more faddish and newer stages of life are really just marketing schemes. Tweenhood. The young old. The quarter-life crisis.

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