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"The good historian is like the giant of the fairy tale. He knows that wherever he catches the scent of human flesh, there his quarry lies."
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"When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine."
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"There is nothing we like to communicate to others as much as the seal of secrecy together with what lies under it."
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"Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie."
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"Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance."
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"Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all."
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"One ought to have a good memory when he has told a lie."
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"A lie has no leg, but a scandal has wings."
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"Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown."
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"Earlier on in my career I felt that I had to hide behind a lot of different masks, and showboat ways of performing. Now, that's a lie. The less I have to hide, the less I have to act."
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"I got a feeling about political correctness. I hate it. It causes us to lie silently instead of saying what we think."
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"But history is neither watchmaking nor cabinet construction. It is an endeavor toward better understanding."
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"The good historian is like the giant of the fairy tale. He knows that wherever he catches the scent of human flesh, there his quarry lies."
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"The historian is, by definition, absolutely incapable of observing the facts which he examines."
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"History is, in its essentials, the science of change. It knows and it teaches that it is impossible to find two events that are ever exactly alike, because the conditions from which they spring are never identical."
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"The ABC of our profession is to avoid these large abstract terms in order to try to discover behind them the only concrete realities, which are human beings."
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