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My major allegiance has been to storytelling, not to history. - Ru

My major allegiance has been to storytelling, not to history. – Russell Banks

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I much prefer working with kids whose life could be completely upended by a reading of a book over a weekend. You give them a book to read – they go home and come back a changed person. And that is so much more interesting and exciting. – Russell Banks

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The mists remain of the false glory that erupts from history. – Miguel de Unamuno, En Gredos

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Optimists are usually wrong. But all the great change in history, positive change, was done by optimists. – Thomas Friedman

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History fades into fable; fact becomes clouded with doubt and controversy; the inscription molders from the tablet: the statue falls from the pedestal. Columns, arches, pyramids, what are they but heaps of sand; and their epitaphs, but characters written in the dust? – Washington Irving, The Sketch Book: Westminster Abbey

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But when one believes that youve been appointed by God for a particular mission in history, you have to be very careful about that, how you speak about that. Where is the self-reflection in that? Where is the humility in that? – Jim Wallis

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