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“Hard choices, easy life. Easy choices, hard life.”
― Jerzy Gregorek

“If peace is really what you want, then you will choose peace. If peace mattered to you more than anything else and if you truly knew yourself to be spirit rather than little me, you would remain non-reactive and absolutely alert when confronted with challenging people or situations.”
― Eckhart Tolle , New earth. Awakening to your life's purpose

“Skepticism is the beginning of faith.”
― Oscar Wilde

“There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything.”
― George Gordon Byron

“A historian is like a detective investigating a crime.”
― John H. Arnold, History: A Very Short Introduction

“The past itself is not a narrative. In its entirety, it is as chaotic, uncoordinated, and complex as life. History is about making sense of that mess, finding or creating patterns and meanings and stories from the maelstrom.”
― John H. Arnold, History: A Very Short Introduction

“History is above all else an argument. It is an argument between different historians; and, perhaps, an argument between the past and the present, an argument between what actually happened, and what is going to happen next. Arguments are important; they create the possibility of changing things.”
― John H. Arnold, History: A Very Short Introduction

“History has a beginning in sources, but also in the gaps within and between sources.”
― John H. Arnold, History: A Very Short Introduction

“history is to society what memory is to the individual.”
― John H. Arnold, History: A Very Short Introduction

“History is above all else an argument.”
― John H. Arnold, History: A Very Short Introduction