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"I have nothing revolutionary or even novel to offer."
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"Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours."
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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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"There is nothing so difficult to marry as a large nose."
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"Even if you have nothing to write, write and say so."
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"Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable."
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"Nothing is easy to the unwilling."
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"The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing."
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"Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know."
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"Nothing can come of nothing."
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"He is poor indeed that can promise nothing."
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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."
Enthusiasm
"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."
Time
"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
"Throughout this evolution from left to right, Beard always detested war. Hence his writings were slanted to show that the military side of history was insignificant or a mere reflection of economic forces."
History
"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."
Time
"So I have cultivated the vast garden of human experience which is history, without troubling myself overmuch about laws, essential first causes, or how it is all coming out."
Experience
"Historical methodology, as I see it, is a product of common sense applied to circumstances."
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