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Quotes by Historian
"I am indeed rich, since my income is superior to my expenses, and my expense is equal to my wishes."
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"Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice."
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"We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality."
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"When you take something extremely broad, then it is not a work of expansion or work of compression. It's hard because you have to decide what to throw out."
Work,
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"Hope, the best comfort of our imperfect condition."
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"Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal, or, in other words, a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read, and say, and eat, and drink and wear."
35
"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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"Unlike metaphor, metonymy does not try to fuse images together."
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"The different ness of races, moreover, is no evidence of superiority or of inferiority. This merely indicates that each race has certain gifts which the others do not possess."
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"Who today is willing to say that Texas and California and the remainder of the Southwest would be better off if they were governed by Mexico?"
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"We must also be permitted to bear in mind that evolution, though it may explain everything else, cannot explain itself."
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"In 1945, there were more people killed, more buildings destroyed, more high explosives set off, more fires burning than before or since."
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"Knowledge is what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically trained observer, provides us with a copy of reality that we can all recognize."
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"I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income."
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"We are all revolutionaries now, addicts of change."
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"Time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved."
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"Never had there been such an attempt to make conquest the servant of civilization. About keeping India there is no question. England has a real duty there."
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"The issue, perhaps, boils down to one of how perceptions or misperceptions of racial difference impact various individuals', or groups of individuals', experience of freedom in America. Some would argue that it goes beyond hampering their 'pursuit of happiness' to outright obliterating it."
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"The object of oratory alone in not truth, but persuasion."
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"I see the great continuities in New Zealand history as being decency and common sense and up until now when we've confronted these things we've been able to talk them through, and I'm sure we will with this issue as well."
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"At the different stages of recognition, reflection, and redress, practicing compassion provides potentially world-saving opportunities which otherwise likely would not exist."
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"The American Constitution is the greatest governing document, and at some 7,000 words, just about the shortest."
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"The unrecorded past is none other than our old friend, the tree in the primeval forest which fell without being heard."
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"Neither Johnson nor his party nor the government as a whole were willing to raise, train, equip, and then send Vietnam sufficient manpower to do the job."
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"In real life, of course, it is the hare that wins. Every time. Look around you."
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