#his

But a prayer that he sends from his heart's deep core. ↗

— Paul Laurence Dunbar

#deep #heart #his #prayer #sends

To God be humble, to thy friend be kind, and with thy neighbors gladly lend and borrow; His chance tonight, it maybe thine tomorrow. ↗

— William Dunbar

#be kind #borrow #chance #friend #gladly

But history is neither watchmaking nor cabinet construction. It is an endeavor toward better understanding. ↗

— Marc Bloch

#cabinet #construction #endeavor #history #neither

History is, in its essentials, the science of change. It knows and it teaches that it is impossible to find two events that are ever exactly alike, because the conditions from which they spring are never identical. ↗

— Marc Bloch

#because #change #conditions #essentials #events

The good historian is like the giant of the fairy tale. He knows that wherever he catches the scent of human flesh, there his quarry lies. ↗

— Marc Bloch

#fairy #fairy tale #flesh #giant #good

The historian is, by definition, absolutely incapable of observing the facts which he examines. ↗

— Marc Bloch

#definition #examines #facts #historian #incapable

Nothing is more singular about this generation than its addiction to music. ↗

— Allan Bloom

#addiction #generation #more #music #nothing

I've skewered whites, blacks, Hispanics, Christians, Jews, Muslims, gays, straights, rednecks, addicts, the elderly, and my wife. As a standup comic, it is my job to make sure the majority of people laugh, and I believe that comedy is the last true form of free speech. ↗

— Jeff Dunham

#blacks #christians #comedy #comic #elderly

A comedian needs to have his own filters, needs to know his audience, how far he can push things. ↗

— Jeff Dunham

#comedian #far #filters #his #how

The only way a ventriloquist speaks differently is that he forgoes using his or her lips, and learns to reproduce sounds using the tongue, upper palate, and teeth only. Those 'difficult' letters are B, F, M, P, V, W, and Y. ↗

— Jeff Dunham

#difficult #her #his #learns #letters