Warren Mimbs

“History isn’t just something that ought to be taught, read, or encouraged only because it will make us better citizens. It will make us a better citizen and it will make us more thoughtful and understanding human beings. It should be taught for the pleasure it provides. The pleasure of history, like art or music or literature, consists in an expansion of the experience of being alive,”
― David McCullough, The American Spirit: Who We Are and What We Stand For

“It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.”
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

“The strength of a person's spirit would then be measured by how much 'truth' he could tolerate, or more precisely, to what extent he needs to have it diluted, disguised, sweetened, muted, falsified.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

“It is strange how people always speak quietly in the darkness before dawn.”
― Frederick Forsyth, No Comebacks