Richard Abels:
CLASS OF 1969
Half Hollow Hills High School EastClass of 1969
Dix hills, NY
Richard's Story
Richard's schools include Half Hollow Hills High School East. Richard works(ed) at United States Naval Academy.
Music Richard likes includes Rogers & Hart, Classical, Michael Bublé. Books Richard likes include Coraline, A Song of Ice and Fire, Catch-22. Movies Richard likes include The Adventures of Robin Hood, Blazing Saddles, Monty Python & the Holy Grail. TV shows Richard likes include The Simpsons, Boardwalk Empire, Buffy The Vampire Slayer.
One of Richard's favorite quotes is:""I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying."
Woody Allen
"God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh."
Voltaire [Francois-Marie Arouet]
"History is the only laboratory we have in which to test the consequences of thought."
Etienne Gilson
"What we call history is the mess we call life reduced to some order. pattern and possibly purpose."
G. R. Elton
History is not a recipe book; past eve...Expand for more
nts are never replicated in the present in quite the same way. Historical events are infinitely variable and their interpretations are a constantly shifting process. There are no certainties to be found in the past.
Gerda Lerner
"it has ever been my desire to live worthily while I lived, and after my death to leave to them that come after me my memory in good works.'"
King Alfred the Great
"I can win an argument on any topic, against any opponent. People know this, and steer clear of me at parties. Often, as a sign of their great respect, they don't even invite me."
Dave Barry
"Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much."
Oscar Wilde
"It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong."
Voltaire
"The nation that will insist upon drawing a broad line of demarcation between the fighting man and the thinking man is likely to have its fighting done by fools and its thinking by cowards."
Sir William Butler".
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