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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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"There is nothing we like to communicate to others as much as the seal of secrecy together with what lies under it."

"Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance."

"I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie."

"The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception."

"They always say that jazz doesn't sell, but it's a lie, because it does sell, and it sells consistently year in and year out."
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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."

"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."

"But history is neither watchmaking nor cabinet construction. It is an endeavor toward better understanding."

"The historian is, by definition, absolutely incapable of observing the facts which he examines."

"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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