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History shows us how to behave. History teaches, reinforces what we believe in, what we stand for, and what we ought to be willing to stand up for. History is—or should be—the bedrock of patriotism, not the chest-pounding kind of patriotism
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“We do things out of fear and we do things out of love and no one tells you what happens when you act from both places at once.”
― Son of Elsewhere: A Memoir in Pieces
― Son of Elsewhere: A Memoir in Pieces
“Love is a practice, a trail you carve out by traveling the same path over and over and over until it becomes familiar, until it lights the way home.”
― Son of Elsewhere: A Memoir in Pieces
― Son of Elsewhere: A Memoir in Pieces
“Elsewhere is an orientation, an emotional frequency, a chaotic compass that waits until you take a step in one direction, then immediately points in the direction behind you.”
― Son of Elsewhere: A Memoir in Pieces
― Son of Elsewhere: A Memoir in Pieces
“I didn’t understand then what a profound act of generosity this was; to see another person as a part of your tribe when they don’t see themselves that way is an act of kindness. It requires that you extend yourself to another.”
― Son of Elsewhere: A Memoir in Pieces
― Son of Elsewhere: A Memoir in Pieces
“The life of the law has not been logic: it has been experience. The felt necessities of the time, the prevalent moral and political theories, intuitions of public policy, avowed or unconscious, even the prejudices which judges share with their fellow-men, have had a good deal more to do than the syllogism in determining the rules by which men should be governed.”
― The Common Law
― The Common Law
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