Source: The Dervish House (2010), Ch. 3, §5 (p. 109)
“Some of us prefer history to legends, lady,” DeWar said heavily, “and sometimes everybody can be wrong.”
Source: Culture series, Inversions (1998), Chapter 2 (p. 37)
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“Yeah, but some of us in the wrong direction.”
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Iron Council (2004)
“They are men who paid heavily for their page in history.”
Mark W. Clark
(1896–1984) American general
Source: Calculated Risk (1950), p. 7
Context: The story I would like to tell, I thought then, is the story of the men who lie here. Nothing can blur my memory of their tenacity and devotion to duty, of their refusal to be awed by seemingly insurmountable odds, by the swirling dust of the Salerno, by the treacherous mud of the Liri Valley,, or by the stinging snows of the high Apennines. Some chapters of their story I could not hope to tell. No one could tell them who was not there day after day in the foxholes that filled with water before they were half dug, and on the rocky peaks where not even a pack mule could gain a footing. But I can tell a part of the story. I can tell how and why the turn of the wheel of war took the men of the Fifth Army to Italy and what was behind the orders that sent them into battle at Salerno, on the Volturno, at Cassino, and on the flat and barren little strip of hell known as the Anzio beachhead; and I can give at least a glimpse of the bravery and sacrifices, not only of the Americans but of dozen other nationalities who fought their way into the not-so-soft underbelly of the Axis. They are men who paid heavily for their page in history. Testimony to their courage is the fact that they won 56 of the 255 Congressional Medals of Honor awarded to our Army during the entire war. I am proud to have had an opportunity to share in their calculated risk in the Mediterranean.
“Sometimes a legend that endures for centuries… endures for a reason.”
Dan Brown
book
The Lost Symbol
Source: The Lost Symbol
Source: All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten
“A legend is merely a history man decided to bugger.”
Karen Chance
American writer
Source: Hunt the Moon
Jocelyn Bell Burnell
(1943) British scientist
Beautiful Minds (2010)
Context: Science doesn't always go forwards. It's a bit like doing a Rubik's cube. You sometimes have to make more of a mess with a Rubik's cube before you can get it to go right. You build up this picture of what there is and you believe it to be true and you work with this picture and you refine it but sometimes you have to abandon the picture. Sometimes you discover the picture you thought you had, that everybody thought we had, actually turns out to be wrong.
“Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.”
George Bernard Shaw
(1856–1950) Irish playwright
1900s, Love Among the Artists (1900)
“I think "immoral" is probably the wrong word to use…I prefer the word "unethical."”
Ivan Boesky
(1937) American investor, white-collar criminal
Den of Thieves (1992), by John B. Stewart