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Quotes by Historian
"For me archaeology is not a source of illustrations for written texts, but an independent source of historical information, with no less value and importance, sometimes more importance, that the written sources."
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"Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion."
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"Dams have harmed our wildlife and made rivers less useful for recreation."
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"They still have some money, and they have needs to supply. They must begin immediately to pool their earnings and organize industries to participate in supplying social and economic demands."
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"The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness."
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"There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live."
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"The equation of religion with belief is rather recent."
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"In its function, the power to punish is not essentially different from that of curing or educating."
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"Man ceased to be an ape, vanquished the ape, on the day the first book was written."
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"Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible."
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"Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action."
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"Religiously the Empire was pluralistic and marked by a search for a faith which would be satisfying intellectually and ethically and would give assurance of immortality."
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"Knowledge is not simply another commodity. On the contrary. Knowledge is never used up. It increases by diffusion and grows by dispersion."
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"If the Negroes are to remain forever removed from the producing atmosphere, and the present discrimination continues, there will be nothing left for them to do."
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"A history of civilization shares the presumptuousness of every philosophical enterprise: it offers the ridiculous spectacle of a fragment expounding the whole. Like philosophy, such a venture has no rational excuse, and is at best but a brave stupidity; but let us hope that, like philosophy, it will always lure some rash spirits into its fatal depths."
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"This assumption of Negro leadership in the ghetto, then, must not be confined to matters of religion, education, and social uplift; it must deal with such fundamental forces in life as make these things possible."
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"Simple shifts in points of view can open doors to expansions of consciousness as easily as rigid dispositions can close hearts and minds to such elevated awareness. It generally depends on whether you allow fear and violence to rule your actions or whether you give wisdom, courage, and compassion the authority to do so."
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"The so-called modern education, with all its defects, however, does others so much more good than it does the Negro, because it has been worked out in conformity to the needs of those who have enslaved and oppressed weaker peoples."
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"Quote words that affirmall men and women are yourbrothers and sisters."
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"The fate of warnings in political affairs is to be futile when the recipient wishes otherwise."
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"Washington and Jefferson were both rich Virginia planters, but they were never friends."
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"Beauty is an outward gift which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused."
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"Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice."
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"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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"Disorder is the least tolerable up sinful conditions."
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"For me, the card catalog has been a companion all my working life. To leave it is like leaving the house one was brought up in."
Life,
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"From the perspective of mere representation, the external world always remains only a phenomenon."
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"Nothing except the mint can make money without advertising."
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