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Jason, I love you and you cannot escape from it. Even if you could, I would never let you go.


Natalie Ansard


#love-novel #love-story #love

Nor could I fail to recall my friendship with Howard K. Beale, professor of American History at the University of North Carolina. There he was, one day in 1940, standing just outside my room in the men’s dormitory at St. Augustine’s, in his chesterfield topcoat, white silk scarf, and bowler hat, with his calling card in hand, perhaps looking for a silver tray in which to drop it. Paul Buck, whom he knew at Harvard, had told him to look me up. He wanted to invite me to his home in Chapel Hill to have lunch or dinner and to meet his family. From that point on we saw each other regularly. After I moved to Durham, he invited me each year to give a lecture on “The Negro in American Social Thought” in one of his classes. One day when I was en route to Beale’s class, I encountered one of his colleagues, who greeted me and inquired where I was going. I returned the greeting and told him that I was going to Howard Beale’s class to give a lecture. After I began the lecture I noticed that Howard was called out of the class. He returned shortly, and I did not give it another thought. Some years later, after we both had left North Carolina, Howard told me that he had been called out to answer a long-distance phone call from a trustee of the university who had heard that a Negro was lecturing in his class. The trustee ordered Beale to remove me immediately. In recounting this story, Beale told me that he had said that he was not in the habit of letting trustees plan his courses, and he promptly hung up. Within a few years Howard accepted a professorship at the University of Wisconsin. A favorite comment from Chapel Hill was that upon his departure from North Carolina, blood pressures went down all over the state.


John Hope Franklin


#family

Human history is full of great men, great women, individuals, with the will for power - all of them with governesses like her.


Daniel Nayeri


#humanity #men

In reference to the search for Lincoln's killers as it took to the Maryland swamps: "The method of searching the swamps is simple yet arduous. First, the troops assemble on the edge of bogs with names like Allen’s Creek, Scrub Swamp, and Atchall’s Swamp, standing at loose attention in the shade of a thick forest of beech, dogwood, and gum trees. Then they form two lines and march straight forward, from one side to the other. As absurd as it seems to the soldiers, marching headlong into cold mucky water, there is no other way of locating Booth and Herold. Incredibly, eighty-seven of these brave men will drown in their painstaking weeklong search for the killers.


Bill O'Reilly


#civil-war #history #john-wilkes-booth #lincoln #change

Joe DiMaggio batted safely in 56 consecutive games in 1941, the same season Ted Williams batted .406—but did you know that also in 1941, Jeff Heath, an outfielder who spent a decade playing for the Indians, became the first player in AL history to hit 20 doubles, 20 triples, and 20 home runs in the same season? It’s true.


Tucker Elliot


#baseball-quotes #baseball-stats #baseball-trivia #boston-red-sox #cleveland-indians

You can start to change your luck today. Begin believing that you can have what you desire and superior things will arrive.


Steve Backley


#inspirational #life-changing #mind-body-spirit #motivational #new-thought

...we have to save the history we have. You never know what small bit of it might change your life--or change the whole world.


Jack Gantos


#change

It (Life) is constantly changing, and yet it remains the same.


Jan Hawkins


#australian-story #dreaming-series #shaman #change

people don't really want original stories. they want different versions of the same story. this is called meta-narrative.


Chester Elijah Branch


#screenwriting #storytelling #movies

The history of science is the saga of nature defying common sense.


Kedar Joshi


#history #nature #science #nature






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