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Quotes by Historian
"Favor and honor sometimes fall more fitly on those who do not desire them."
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"So the result was that as one approached a political convention for most of the 19th century and for most of the 20th century until the 1960's, part of the drama was the fact that you didn't know ultimately who was going to be the nominee at the end of that convention week."
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"It's time to stop following your dreams and time to start chasing them!"
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"It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it."
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"The repudiation of the primacy of understanding means the repudiation of the norms of judgment as well, and hence the abandonment of all ethical standards."
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"A jacket commemorating the Germans as champions of the 1990 World Cup is out of date two weeks after the event has passed."
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"Ideologies, however appealing, cannot shape the whole structure of perceptions and conduct unless they are embedded in daily experiences that confirm them."
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"Nothing is really real unless it happens on television."
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"The principles of a free constitution are irrecoverably lost, when the legislative power is nominated by the executive."
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"I was taught by professors who had done their schooling in the 1930s. Most of them were scornful of, even hated, big business."
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"Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be."
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"It is difficult to describe in short the enthusiasm and devotion provoked by and given to my research. We lived almost in poverty. I used pencils, two for a nickel, and could not buy a fountain pen, when I lost mine."
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"Environmentalism opposes reckless innovation and makes conservation the central order of business."
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"Read the stories of the past to write your story for the future."
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"You can't be a full participant in our democracy if you don't know our history."
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"Four men are missing; R., Sorel and two emigrants. They set out this morning after buffalo, and have not yet made their appearance; whether killed or lost, we cannot tell."
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"It is grievous to read the papers in most respects, I agree. More and more I skim the headlines only, for one can be sure what is carried beneath them quite automatically, if one has long been a reader of the press journalism."
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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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"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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"So long as large armies go to battle, so long will the air arm remain their spearhead."
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"It's a necessary quality of a diplomat or a politician that he will compromise. Uncompromising politicians or diplomats get you into the most terrible trouble."
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"In appearance the labor system of all the colonies was the same."
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"I don't look to find an educated person in the ranks of university graduates, necessarily. Some of the most educated people I know have never been near a university."
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"In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success."
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"So if 1960 had occurred under the old convention system, Kennedy would have had a very hard time getting the Democratic nomination because he would have been rejected by all those people who had worked with him in Washington."
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"Viewed narrowly, all life is universal hunger and an expression of energy associated with it."
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"It is my contention that Aesop was writing for the tortoise market. hares have no time to read."
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"Nobody should teach anywhere for 25 years, but I did."
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