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Francis Parkman Quotes

Fort Leavenworth is in fact no fort, being without defensive works, except two block-houses.

Francis Parkman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: historian
Nationality: american
Birth: September 16, 1823 - November 8, 1893

Topics

Two Without Being Fort Defensive

A protective self-narrative during conflict and duress sometimes obscures us from seeing the worst in ourselves. When the self-sustaining haze lifts after that conflict has subsided, we may recognize in ourselves the flaws the other saw in us at the time that we didn't have the emotional bandwidth to examine in the moment.

Time Moment Conflict Seeing Flaws

Words are really beautiful, but they're limited. Words are very male, very structured. But the voice is the netherworld, the darkness, where there's nothing to hang onto. The voice comes from a part of you that just knows and expresses and is.

Beautiful Darkness Words Voice You

We pass through this world but once.

Stephen Jay Gould

Life World Through Pass Once

It's always good to get feedback from people. I've been fortunate that all the fans, and especially fans of 'Teen Wolf,' have been really gracious.

Good Teen People Wolf Feedback Fans

Those who are mastering more and more the communications revolution, those who realize that there are no borders in the world, are the ones who are going to leap ahead.

World Revolution Ahead Leap Borders

I don't really ever worry about what anyone else does and I certainly don't worry about what anyone else says about me.

Me Worry About Ever Really Says

It's weird to get asked questions that I don't know the answers to... But I like getting questions I don't know the answer to because maybe it's the first time I've been asked to articulate these things.

Time Weird Questions Know First Time

If writers learn more from their books than do readers, perhaps I may have begun to learn.

Lloyd Alexander

Learn More May Books Than Readers

I'm not good enough to be playin' much acoustic guitar onstage. Man, you gotta get so right; I mean, the tones, the feel, the sound. Plus, acoustic blues guitar is just that much harder on the fingers.

Good Man Not Good Enough Guitar You

There are plenty of studies that have shown that depression is associated with decreased immunity. So I want to harness all of the positive emotional energy I can in a patient to get better.

Positive Depression Energy Better

In a manner of speaking, the poem is its own knower, neither poet nor reader knowing anything that the poem says apart from the words of the poem.

Words Knowing Anything Own Poet Nor

I don't find these technical things like flowers and chocolates romantic at all. I think Valentine's Day makes no sense.

Valentine's Day Romantic Day Flowers

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