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{{Cquote|Historians, after all, like sequence. We like causes and effects, clear change over time, and neat narratives that we can mold into compelling stories. <br><br>
We mostly don't see the job as "complicating" the past but rather to explain it, to make its complications clearer and more conclusive. Put differently, we like answers. The past is a problem and the tools of history allow us to seek explanations as to why. History empowers us to answer these questions.||| Bennett Parten - ''[https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/crossing-the-blood-meridian-cormac-mccarthy-and-american-history/ Crossing the Blood Meridian: Cormac McCarthy and American History]'' (2022)}}
== Biography ==
{{Cquote|Most of us are not in any real sense the authors of our lives.<br><br>
We plan, think, and act, often with apparent freedom, but most of the time, our lives "happen to us". We only retrospectively turn this happenstance into a coherent narrative of fulfilled intentions.||| Mott T. Greene - ''Alfred Wegener : Science, Exploration, and the Theory of Continental Drift'' (2015)}}
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