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Quotes by Historian
"One of the strongest and most persistent elements in national development has been that inheritance of political traditions and usages which the new settlers brought with them."
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"To be able to look back upon one's past life with satisfaction is to live twice."
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"However, the sciences of society and of history retained their old subservient relation to metaphysics for a long time - well into the eighteenth century."
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"The crusade against Communism was even more imaginary than the specter of Communism."
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"Reasonable orders are easy enough to obey; it is capricious, bureaucratic or plain idiotic demands that form the habit of discipline."
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"A poem conveys not a message so much as the provenance of a message, an advent of sense."
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"Age acquires no value save through thought and discipline."
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"Negroes who have been so long inconvenienced and denied opportunities for development are naturally afraid of anything that sounds like discrimination."
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"Well, it seems to me Lincoln, I suppose, is kind of a model of a particular sort of presidency, a presidency that first of all is elected by a minority of the votes."
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"The knowledge that makes us cherish innocence makes innocence unattainable."
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"No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else."
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"Christianity is part of the Common Law of England."
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"A single breaker may recede; but the tide is evidently coming in."
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"From the perspective of mere representation, the external world always remains only a phenomenon."
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"A soil, exhausted by the long culture of Pagan empires, was to lie fallow for a still longer period."
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"The Roman jurisprudence has the longest known history of any set of human institutions."
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"Do we settle on a regional team because we can go to its ballpark and see its games on television? Or do we choose a team as our favorite because it has an especially appealing player, a Barry Bonds or an Ichiro?"
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"A military road led from this point to Fort Leavenworth, and for many miles the farms and cabins of the Delawares were scattered at short intervals on either hand."
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"A complete woman is probably not a very admirable creature. She is manipulative, uses other people to get her own way, and works within whatever system she is in."
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"The best an American can look forward to is the lonely pleasure of one who stands at long last on a chilly and inhospitable mountaintop where few have been before, where few can follow and where few will consent to believe he has been."
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"The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just."
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"There is only one cure for the evils which newly acquired freedom produces, and that cure is freedom."
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"With the question of the effect of a poem, the topic of investigation shifts from that of textual autonomy to textual reception - to the issue of what we actually look for or find in reading a poem."
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"The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule."
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"Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama."
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"The second fundamental feature of culture is that all culture has an element of striving."
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"Unlike metaphor, metonymy does not try to fuse images together."
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