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Quotes by Historian
"We must, however, note that what are usually called the high religions made their appearance within about twenty-five hundred years - most of them within fifteen hundred years."
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"Waste no time with revolutions that do not remove the causes of your complaints but simply change the faces of those in charge."
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"This is what our love is""a sacred pattern of unbroken unity sewn flawlessly invisible inside all other images, thoughts, smells, and sounds."
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"In real life, of course, it is the hare that wins. Every time. Look around you."
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"If the idea of loving those whom you have been taught to recognize as your enemies is too overwhelming, consider more deeply the observation that we are all much more alike than we are unalike."
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"The existence of an area of free land, its continuous recession, and the advance of American settlement, explain American development."
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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 celebrity is a person who is known for his well-knownness."
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"Americans are the only people in the world known to me whose status anxiety prompts them to advertise their college and university affiliations in the rear window of their automobiles."
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"When contrasted with the much longer time that life has been present, the course of Christianity thus far is but a brief moment."
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"Too rigid specialization is almost as bad for a historian's mind, and for his ultimate reputation, as too early an indulgence in broad generalization and synthesis."
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"Information, usually seen as the precondition of debate, is better understood as its by-product."
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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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"Christians were regarded as separated from society and therefore destructive of the Greco-Roman way of life."
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"Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago."
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"Television has made places look alike, and it has transformed the way we see. A whole generation of Americans, maybe two, has grown up looking at the world through a lens."
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"Human improvement is from within outward."
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"In some of the middle colonies the towns and counties were both active and had a relation with each other which was the forerunner of the present system of local government in the Western States."
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"I'm very aware how many distractions the reader has in life today, how many good reasons there are to put the book down."
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"But the citizens of Cincinnati loved their Reds because they won, no matter what their addresses had been the year before. They rooted for the Old-English 'C' on the players' shirts."
Old,
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"She thoroughly understands what no other Church has ever understood, how to deal with enthusiasts."
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"The Roman legions were formed in the first instance of citizen soldiers, who yet had been made to submit to a rigid discipline, and to feel that in that submission lay their strength."
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"Curiosity is idle only to those who fail to realize that it may be a very rare and indispensable thing."
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"As she sallied forth from her boudoir, you would never have guessed how quickly she could strip for action."
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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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"An aristocratic culture does not advertise its emotions. In its forms of expression it is sober and reserved. Its general attitude is stoic."
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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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"No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime has appeared for the first time, its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could ever have been."
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"The existence of inherent limits of experience in no way settles the question about the subordination of facts of the human world to our knowledge of matter."
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