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Quotes by Historian
"In Mexico an air conditioner is called a politician because it makes a lot of noise but doesn't work very well."
Work,
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"To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse."
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"If the Negro in the ghetto must eternally be fed by the hand that pushes him into the ghetto, he will never become strong enough to get out of the ghetto."
Will,
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"The darkest thing about Africa has always been our ignorance of it."
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"News represents another form of advertising, not liberal propaganda."
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"Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip."
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"Nobody should teach anywhere for 25 years, but I did."
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"Could I interrupt here, because there is an alternative explanation, which you are particularly well placed to examine. You know the argument that it is the alchemists in the laboratories who invent the sweet new kits."
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"You never know what you will learn till you start writing. Then you discover truths you never knew existed."
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"As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows, cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human kind."
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"Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years."
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"Expelled from individual consciousness by the rush of change, history finds its revenge by stamping the collective unconsciousness with habits and values."
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"Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them."
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"No matter what political reasons are given for war, the underlying reason is always economic."
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"The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by five hundred readers, or by five hundred thousand; if he can select the five hundred, he reaches the five hundred thousand."
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"Favor and honor sometimes fall more fitly on those who do not desire them."
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"Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life blood of real civilization."
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"Most of these alternative arrangements, so-called, arise out of the ruins of marriages, not as an improvement of old fashioned marriage."
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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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"Our greatest power as nations and individuals is not the ability to employ assault weapons, suicide bombers, and drones to destroy each other. The greater more creative powers with which we may arm ourselves are grace and compassion sufficient enough to love and save each other."
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"Almost all people have this potential for evil, which would be unleashed only under certain dangerous social circumstances."
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"In the third century after Christ the faith continued to spread."
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"All comparisons between America's current place in the world and anything legitimately called an empire in the past reveal ignorance and confusion about any reasonable meaning of the concept empire, especially the comparison with the Roman Empire."
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"You have no idea how promising the world begins to look once you have decided to have it all for yourself. And how much healthier your decisions are once they become entirely selfish."
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"The poet laureate of England talked about murdering Jews on the West Bank."
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"Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know."
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"A religion so cheerless, a philosophy so sorrowful, could never have succeeded with the masses of mankind if presented only as a system of metaphysics. Buddhism owed its success to its catholic spirit and its beautiful morality."
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"Stars ink your fingerswith a lexicon of flameblazing rare knowledge."
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