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History is full of really good stories. That's the main reason I got into this racket: I want to make the argument that history is interesting.

Sarah Vowell

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Sarah Vowell
Age: 54
Born: 1969
Born: December 27
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Oh my dear, idealists are the cruelest monsters of them all.
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Jesus and Lincoln, Moses and Jefferson can seem so long gone, so unbelievable, so dead.
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I haven't decided if he deserved to eat bread made out of sticks or live in a rancid puddle, probably because I haven't made up my mind whether anyone deserves such treatment, though I suspect that the day a person gives up on the Geneva Conventions is the day a person gives up on the human race.
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