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Quotes by Historian
"Pursuing employment or climatic relief, we live in voluntary exile from our extended families and our longer past, but in an involuntary exile from ourselves and our own past."
Past,
47
"It's definitely going to be harder than it sounds to acquire millions of users in the U.S. It's going to be a lot of work, and you can't make light of that."
45
"The history of Christianity, therefore, must be of concern to all who are interested in the record of man and particularly to all who seek to understand the contemporary human scene."
44
"In the long run, there is not much discrimination against superior talent."
44
"Distant replay morphs into instant replay, and future replay cannot be far off."
42
"For some reason, I seem to be bothered whenever I see acts of injustice and assaults on people's civil liberties. I imagine what I write in the future will follow in that vein. Whether it's fiction or non-fiction."
42
"Somebody who was born in this country who visited China would later face difficulty getting back in to the USA. We have to keep in mind that the struggles of the Chinese against these exclusion laws really laid down the foundations of civil rights law."
41
"Christianity is usually called a religion. As a religion it has had a wider geographic spread and is more deeply rooted among more peoples than any other religion in the history of mankind."
41
"An acre in Middlesex is better than a principality in Utopia."
39
"Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history."
38
"Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge."
37
"Psychoanalysts are not occupied with the minds of their patients; they do not believe in the mind but in a cerebral intestine."
Mind,
37
"History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind."
36
"A knowledge of the forces that rule society, of the causes that have produced its upheavals, and of society's resources for promoting healthy progress has become of vital concern to our civilization."
36
"To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization."
36
"The left has come to regard common sense - the traditional wisdom and folkways of the community - as an obstacle to progress and enlightenment."
35
"Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor."
35
"Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill."
35
"Lenin was the first to discover that capitalism 'inevitably' caused war; and he discovered this only when the First World War was already being fought. Of course he was right. Since every great state was capitalist in 1914."
35
"My assumption is that fundamentally the picture of the human animal, as developed by Freud, is largely right."
34
"My first name - I have no middle name - was chosen by my father, as he told me, on that solitary walk in the forested hills. He selected it from a verse of the seventh chapter of Isaiah; there was no Immanuel among our ancestors known to him."
34
"Immigrants do more than help us win our wars, or set up cleaning shops or ethnic restaurants."
33
"There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary qualities. They will not bear discussion."
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