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Quotes by Historian
"There is not much that even the most socially responsible scientists can do as individuals, or even as a group, about the social consequences of their activities."
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"To sum up the whole, we should say that the aim of the Platonic philosophy was to exalt man into a god."
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"The crusades made great improvement in the condition of the serfs."
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"I heard Thackeray thank Heaven for the purity of Dickens. I thanked Heaven for the purity of a greater than Dickens - Thackeray himself."
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"Expelled from individual consciousness by the rush of change, history finds its revenge by stamping the collective unconsciousness with habits and values."
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"No people do so much harm as those who go about doing good."
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"Eisenhower had the clearest blue eyes. He would fix them on you. In my every interview with him, he would lock his eyes on to mine and keep them there."
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"I can see that you are a true historian because you really always ought to ask that question about anybody at a different place or a different time: What's the same and what's different?"
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"We have to make philosophy itself an object of philosophical concern."
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"In government as well as in trade a new era came to the colonies in 1763."
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"The best portraits are those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature."
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"A few hours' ride brought us to the banks of the river Kansas."
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"If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. Nothing in the paper today, we sigh."
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"If it were a real effort to live in the Middle Ages, your life would be one perpetual prevarication."
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"The sense of danger is never, perhaps, so fully apprehended as when the danger has been overcome."
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"It is easier to criticize than to correct our past errors."
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"Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda."
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"Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense."
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"The more I have studied Lincoln, the more I have followed his thought processes, the more I am convinced that he understood leadership better than any other American president."
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"History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other."
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"Politics as battle has given way to politics as spectacle."
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"Favor and honor sometimes fall more fitly on those who do not desire them."
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"The Psalms, the anthology of the hymns of Israel, are still used by Christians."
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"Rome has grown since its humble beginnings that it is now overwhelmed by its own greatness."
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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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"And so while the great ones depart to their dinner, the secretary stays, growing thinner and thinner, racking his brain to record and report what he thinks that they think that they ought to have thought."
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