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Quotes by Historian
"The Romans, we are told, were by nature a peculiarly warlike race."
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"Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago."
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"I have certainly amassed many historical research gathering skills."
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"The hardest and greatest thing a human being can do is submit to his Creator."
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"One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim."
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"Washington and Jefferson were both rich Virginia planters, but they were never friends."
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"So the story of man runs in a dreary circle, because he is not yet master of the earth that holds him."
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"The lived experiences which could not find adequate scientific expression in the substance doctrine of rational psychology were now validated in light of new and better methods."
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"She thoroughly understands what no other Church has ever understood, how to deal with enthusiasts."
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"Rainer Maria Rilke greeted and wrestled with the angels of his Duino Elegies in the solitude of a castle surrounded by white cliffs tall trees and the sea. I greeted most of mine in the solitude of a house that still vibrated with the throbs of a singular life that had helped shape many lives and with the ache of attempts to render useful service to that life. The River of Winged Dreams was therefore constructed as a link between dimensions of past and future emotions and intellect and matter and spirit."
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"Neoclassical economics insists that advertising cannot force consumers to buy anything they don't already want to buy."
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"Many of the Iroquois and Huron houses were of similar construction, the partitions being at the sides only, leaving a wide passage down the middle of the house."
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"The old charters of Massachusetts, Virginia, and the Carolinas had given title to strips of territory extending from the Atlantic westward to the Pacific."
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"On either side of a potentially violent conflict, an opportunity exists to exercise compassion and diminish fear based on recognition of each other's humanity. Without such recognition, fear fueled by uninformed assumptions, cultural prejudice, desperation to meet basic human needs, or the panicked uncertainty of the moment explodes into violence."
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"The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin."
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"A single breaker may recede; but the tide is evidently coming in."
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"And thus goes segregation which is the most far-reaching development in the history of the Negro since the enslavement of the race."
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"Freedom was conditioned by man's physical body, heredity, and environment."
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"There is a curious relationship between a candidate and the reporters who cover him. It can be affected by small things like a competent press staff, enough seats, sandwiches and briefings and the ability to understand deadlines."
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"The sciences which take socio-historical reality as their subject matter are seeking, more intensively than ever before, their systematic relations to one another and to their foundation."
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"The best government rests on the people, and not on the few, on persons and not on property, on the free development of public opinion and not on authority."
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"We enter the world alone, we leave the world alone."
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"Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers."
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"First of all, there's no mention of political parties in the Constitution, so you begin American history with not only no political conventions but also no parties."
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"Even before Watergate and his resignation, Nixon had inspired conflicting and passionate emotions."
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"The darkest thing about Africa has always been our ignorance of it."
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"From the beginning of the presidential nominating conventions in the 1830's really through the 1950's, you had conventions that actually did real business."
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"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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"There are three terrible ages of childhood - 1 to 10, 10 to 20, and 20 to 30."
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"Conservatives have no understanding of modern capitalism. They have a distorted understanding of the traditional values they claim to defend."
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"If I haven't made myself clear, this worrisome chain of events describes the game of the nineteenth century."
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