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Quotes by Historian
"In any case, his judgment and set of values, acting alone or through his assistants, determine not only what is gold and what is dross but the design of the history which he creates out of the metal. The historian decides what is significant, and what is not."
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"As to the Indians, the guiding principle was, promise them anything just so long as they get out of the way."
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"Dishonesty is so grasping it would deceive God himself, were it possible."
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"I can see that you are a true historian because you really always ought to ask that question about anybody at a different place or a different time: What's the same and what's different?"
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"In government as well as in trade a new era came to the colonies in 1763."
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"The function of a genius is not to give new answers, but to pose new questions which time and mediocrity can resolve."
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"I was able to sit at Lincoln's side and see how he thought and how he acted, and how he felt about what was going on around him. I felt the pressures that were on him. You can see what people were writing to him, how they were nudging him."
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"Compared with the thousands of years in which human life has been on this planet, Christianity is a recent development."
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"We are all revolutionaries now, addicts of change."
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"History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other."
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"Intellectual honesty is the quality that the public in free countries always has expected of historians; much more than that it does not expect, nor often get."
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"No blame should attach to telling the truth. But it does, it does."
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"The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition."
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"The Psalms, the anthology of the hymns of Israel, are still used by Christians."
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"We may have to have a geo-political regrouping or major geo-political changes."
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"Relentless improvement of the product and upgrading of consumer tastes are the heart of mass merchandising."
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"Hitler's dictatorship rested on the constitutional foundation of a single law, the Enabling Law."
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"Freedom rings bells to wake us from the comfort of beautiful dreams and empower the efforts that turn them into reality."
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"The worst thing about war was the sitting around and wondering what you were doing morally."
War,
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"When people don't understand that the government doesn't have their interests in mind, they're more susceptible to go to war."
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"Simple shifts in points of view can open doors to expansions of consciousness as easily as rigid dispositions can close hearts and minds to such elevated awareness. It generally depends on whether you allow fear and violence to rule your actions or whether you give wisdom, courage, and compassion the authority to do so."
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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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"Quote words that affirmall men and women are yourbrothers and sisters."
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"In an age where history is recorded on T-shirts, the very notion of dwelling on the deep structure of an experience has come to appear both arcane and archaic."
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"Just above our terror, the stars painted this storyin perfect silver calligraphy. And our souls, too oftenabused by ignorance, covered our eyes with mercy."
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"Democracy is not about making speeches. It is about making committees work."
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