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"Intellectual honesty is the quality that the public in free countries always has expected of historians; much more than that it does not expect, nor often get."
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"Greatness is the quality of time you are able to convert into the production of value."
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"Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists."
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"Become great by converting your time into quality product."
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"Curiosity, n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know whether or not a woman is cursed with curiosity is one of the most active and insatiable passions of the masculine soul."
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"I consider it top priority to improve water quality and increase water quantity in my community."
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"An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible."
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"Even in winter an isolated patch of snow has a special quality."
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"The time you utilize doing something determines how good the product will be."
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"The quality of our thoughts is bordered on all sides by our facility with language."
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"Because everything we say and do is the length and shadow of our own souls, our influence is determined by the quality of our being."
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"Yet enthusiasm is no excuse for the historian going off balance. He should remind the reader that outcomes were neither inevitable nor foreordained, but subject to a thousand changes and chances."
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"Intellectual honesty is the quality that the public in free countries always has expected of historians; much more than that it does not expect, nor often get."
Quality
"Courses on historical methodology are not worth the time that they take up. I shall never give one myself, and I have observed that many of my colleagues who do give such courses refrain from exemplifying their methods by writing anything."
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"Historical methodology, as I see it, is a product of common sense applied to circumstances."
Circumstance
"In any case, his judgment and set of values, acting alone or through his assistants, determine not only what is gold and what is dross but the design of the history which he creates out of the metal. The historian decides what is significant, and what is not."
Design
"Too rigid specialization is almost as bad for a historian's mind, and for his ultimate reputation, as too early an indulgence in broad generalization and synthesis."
Mind
"I have nothing revolutionary or even novel to offer."
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"Skepticism is an important historical tool. It is the starting point of all revision of hitherto accepted history."
History
"The same contingencies of time and space that force a statesman or soldier to make decisions, impel the historian, though with less urgency, to make up his mind."
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"With honesty of purpose, balance, a respect for tradition, courage, and, above all, a philosophy of life, any young person who embraces the historical profession will find it rich in rewards and durable in satisfaction."
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