David P. Thelen quotes

“The challenge of history is to recover the past and introduce it to the present.”
-- David P. Thelen

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“So with truth - there is a certain moment when one can say, this is the truth and here I put a dot, a stop, and I go to another thing. A judge has to put an end to a deliberation. But for a historian, theres never an end to the past. It can go on and on and on.”

Source : "Sh'ma, Volume 34, Issue 607 - Volume 36, Issue 626". Book edited by J. Jakobovits, 2004.

“I can't tell you where a poem comes from, what it is, or what it is for: nor can any other man. The reason I can't tell you is that the purpose of a poem is to go past telling, to be recognised by burning.”

“What we have done in the past is not sufficient now to prepare our youth.”

“There is more similarity in the marketing challenge of selling a precious painting by Degas and a frosted mug of root beer than you ever thought possible.”

“Each day was a challenge of enjoyment, and he [Hemingway] would plan it out as a field general plans a campign.”

“I'm always looking for challenges.”

Source : "Q&A with ... Packers QB Aaron Rodgers: 'Let's go get another one'". Interview with Vinnie Iyer, www.sportingnews.com. February 7, 2011.

“For me, I am left leaning when it comes to health and education, on the right when it comes to defense. So I don't know where I come on the political spectrum. And I think this the challenge that a lot of Jordanians have to deal with.”

“The challenge, really, on any new film is to try to avoid that and achieve a few moments that aren't cliche.”

“I always want to set myself a challenge by doing something no-one would expect me to do! But, having said that, I don't feel as a musician you can steer too far away from what you normally do.”

“Even the most painstaking history is a bridge across an eternal mystery.”