We preach democracy while supporting dictatorships.

The antidote to feel-good history is not feel-bad history but honest and inclusive history.

Those who don't remember the past are condemned to repeat the eleventh grade.

People have a right to their own opinions, but not to their own facts. Evidence must be located, not created, and opinions not backed by evidence cannot be given much weight.

Students will start finding history interesting when their teachers and textbooks stop lying to them.

History is important. More than any other topic, it is about us. Whether one deems our present society wondrous or awful or both, history reveals how we got to this point.

Conclusions are not always pleasant.

There's no excuse therefore, for a 1,152 page book. I think we should all be using 300-page paperbacks. These exist.

Many Americans have never owned a book, and I'm not talking about because of the recent digital revolution. I'm talking about before there even was a digital revolution.

I'm looking forward to the future, which is a good thing, because it's coming.

The layout of textbooks, I think, has been done with an assumption that students don't read.

...no woman can love a weak man hard enough to make him strong.

The ribbon on my wrist says: Do not open before Christmas.

Do you not hear the loud gallop of the Storm-riders and the thunderous battle horn from their Heralds, coming from the high seas? Night falls, and so will you.

High mature digital organizations stretch out in every business dimension.

Human beings are no damn good, ” he said. “We are even worse than animals. We like ...”He trailed off, cleared his throat, but his voice hardly reached a whisper.“We like monsters, ” he said.

Zombies dont mess with other zombies.

Success is predictable.

Go to lots of interviews, at least one a month even when you don't need a job, to keep in training for when you do.

There are good books and there are bad books, period, that's the distinction.

We can gradually grow into any condition we desire, provided we first make ourselves in habitual mental attitude the person who corresponds to those conditions.