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Linguists consider that on average it takes between five hundred and a thousand years for a language to become incomprehensible to its original speakers
Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global Laura Spinney
Never in the field of human conflict has so much been owed by so many to so few.
The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz Erik Larson
Try to keep in mind that everyone you encounter along the way, no matter their background or station in life, knows something you don’t.
History Matters David McCullough
Of more worth is one honest man to society and in the sight of God, than all the crowned ruffians that ever lived.
The Greatest Sentence Ever Written Walter Isaacson
Women, on the other hand, had to wield their intellects like a scythe, hacking away against the stubborn underbrush of low expectations.
Hidden Figures Margot Lee Shetterly
In the United States, fascism is on the rise. Libraries are under attack. Some pundits ask why universities bother with departments that don’t just teach students to write computer code. Violent bigotry is fashionable again, and for many people, the appeal of politics is the opportunity to impose cruelty on others. The admonition to remember has never seemed so important.
Book and Dagger: How Scholars and Librarians Became the Unlikely Spies of World War II Elyse Graham