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"There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so."
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"Nothing endures but personal qualities."
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"Having nothing, nothing can he lose."
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"Remember the poor, it costs nothing."
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"I can take pot or leave it. I got busted in Japan for it. I was nine days without it and there wasn't a hint of withdrawal, nothing."
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"Since philosophy now criticizes everything it comes across, a critique of philosophy would be nothing less than a just reprisal."
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"They built these little tanning booths for Brooke and I to do nothing but lay down and tan all over."
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"I am tired of talk that comes to nothing."
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"Nothing I do can't be done by a 10-year-old with 15 years of practice."
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"It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing."
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"Historical methodology, as I see it, is a product of common sense applied to circumstances."
Circumstance


"Any child knows that history can only be a reduced representation of reality, but it must be a true one, not distorted by queer lenses."
History


"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."
Time


"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


"Everyone agrees to that; but when we come to define truth, dissension starts."
Truth


"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


"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."
Time


"I have nothing revolutionary or even novel to offer."
Nothing


"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."
Life


"Skepticism is an important historical tool. It is the starting point of all revision of hitherto accepted history."
History
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