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Quotes by Historian
"Courses on historical methodology are not worth the time that they take up. I shall never give one myself, and I have observed that many of my colleagues who do give such courses refrain from exemplifying their methods by writing anything."
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"News represents another form of advertising, not liberal propaganda."
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"A huge change has taken place in my lifetime."
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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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"If I haven't made myself clear, this worrisome chain of events describes the game of the nineteenth century."
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"Enthusiasm could not supply the place of experience."
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"Personal disintegration remains always an imminent danger."
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"Before the thunderous clamor of political debate or war set loose in the world, love insisted on its promise for the possibility of human unity: between men and women, between blacks and whites, northerners and southerners, haves and have-have-nots, self and self."
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"The truth hurts when you live a life of lies."
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"At the different stages of recognition, reflection, and redress, practicing compassion provides potentially world-saving opportunities which otherwise likely would not exist."
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"Talk is cheap when your words are of no value."
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"There is in Albert Camus' literary craftsmanship a seductive intelligence that could almost make a reader dismiss his philosophical intentions if he had not insisted on making them so clear."
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"Learn to love your haters, they are a wonderful source of inspiration."
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"Civilizations are the generations of the racial soul. As family-rearing, and then writing, bound the generations together, handing down the lore of the dying to the young, so print and commerce and a thousand ways of communication may bind the civilizations together, and preserve for future cultures all that is of value for them in our own. Let us, before we die, gather up our heritage, and offer it to our children."
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"Often the best advice is not to seek advice."
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"I called it a baptism in flaming ink that forced me to shed my shyness about recognizing myself as a poet and to accept the fact that life had never given me any choice in the matter. And then I had to discover exactly what that meant."
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"So I have cultivated the vast garden of human experience which is history, without troubling myself overmuch about laws, essential first causes, or how it is all coming out."
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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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"The world of crime is a last refuge of the authentic, uncorrupted, spontaneous event."
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"Money as the sole ambition has no value."
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"Environmentalism opposes reckless innovation and makes conservation the central order of business."
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"The rise of the Dutch Republic must ever be regarded as one of the leading events of modern times."
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"An event of great agony is bearable only in the belief that it will bring about a better world. When it does not, as in the aftermath of another vast calamity in 1914-18, disillusion is deep and moves on to self-doubt and self-disgust."
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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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"The susceptibility of the average modern to pictorial suggestion enables advertising to exploit his lessened power of judgment."
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