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Quotes by Historian
"I write to discover what I think. After all, the bars aren't open that early."
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"Leadership is particularly necessary to ensure ready acceptance of the unfamiliar and that which is contrary to tradition."
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"The history of the Franks becomes, therefore, the history of the Netherlands."
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"The English race is the best at weeping and the worst at laughing."
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"The search for the truth for truth's sake is the mark of the historian."
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"A jacket commemorating the Germans as champions of the 1990 World Cup is out of date two weeks after the event has passed."
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"Systematic philosophical and practical anti-intellectualism such as we are witnessing appears to be something truly novel in the history of human culture."
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"The most that one of Jewish faith can do - and some have gladly done it - is to say that Jesus was the greatest in the long succession of Jewish prophets. None can acknowledge that Jesus was the Messiah without becoming a Christian."
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"Conservatives unwittingly side with the social forces that contribute to the destruction of traditional values."
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"A superstition which pretends to be scientific creates a much greater confusion of thought than one which contents itself with simple popular practices."
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"The world of crime is a last refuge of the authentic, uncorrupted, spontaneous event."
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"Experience has ceded to a series of happenings, about which the most we can expect is information."
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"Christians were regarded as separated from society and therefore destructive of the Greco-Roman way of life."
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"Nothing is really real unless it happens on television."
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"I think I was always subconsciously driven by an attempt to restate that faith and to show where it was properly grounded, how it grew out of what a great many young men on both sides felt and believed and were brave enough to do."
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"The number one secret of being a successful writer is this: marry an English major."
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"We can't live without taxes, but we sure would like to have good ones."
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"Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be."
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"This means that they are bound by law and custom to plough the fields of their masters, harvest the corn, gather it into barns, and thresh and winnow the grain; they must also mow and carry home the hay, cut and collect wood, and perform all manner of tasks of this kind."
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"Wealth brings strength, strength confidence."
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"The novelist must ground his work in faithful study of human nature."
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"If we are to survive, we must have ideas, vision, and courage. These things are rarely produced by committees. Everything that matters in our intellectual and moral life begins with an individual confronting his own mind and conscience in a room by himself."
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"The left no longer stands for common sense, as it did in the days of Tom Paine."
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"I've learned any fool can write a bad ad, but it takes a real genius to keep his hands off a good one."
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"The author takes the position that the consumer pays the tax, and as such every individual of the social order should be given unlimited opportunity to make the most of himself."
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"I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money."
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"Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children."
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"We must never throw away a bushel of truth because it happens to contain a few grains of chaff."
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"No politician has ever yet been able to rule his country, nor has any country ever yet been able to face the world, upon the principles of the Sermon on the Mount."
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"We need not be theologians to see that we have shifted responsibility for making the world interesting from God to the newspaperman."
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"No law can possibly meet the convenience of every one: we must be satisfied if it be beneficial on the whole and to the majority."
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