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Quotes by Historian
"To that class we may leave it to refine the vernacular dialects of the country, to enrich those dialects with terms of science borrowed from the Western nomenclature, and to render them by degrees fit vehicles for conveying knowledge to the great mass of the population."
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"The accords were fig leaves of democratic procedure to hide the nakedness of Stalinist dictatorship."
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"Nothing is really real unless it happens on television."
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"I was taught by professors who had done their schooling in the 1930s. Most of them were scornful of, even hated, big business."
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"Even schools for Negroes, then, are places where they must be convinced of their inferiority."
9
"Unlike Christianity, which preached a peace that it never achieved, Islam unashamedly came with a sword."
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"And, finally, Lincoln was not a good impromptu speaker; he was at his best when he could read from a carefully prepared manuscript. Though maybe a teleprompter could have helped that!"
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"No politician has ever yet been able to rule his country, nor has any country ever yet been able to face the world, upon the principles of the Sermon on the Mount."
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"We need not be theologians to see that we have shifted responsibility for making the world interesting from God to the newspaperman."
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"Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, 'This is the real me,' and when you have found that attitude, follow it."
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"The exact measure of the progress of civilization is the degree in which the intelligence of the common mind has prevailed over wealth and brute force."
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"Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its underlying character structure."
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"A manufacturing district... sends out, as it were, suckers into all its neighbourhood."
9
"The dancing vortex of a sacred metaphor clashes horns and halos to make wounded music set to the tempo of a new era in brilliant labor."
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"On either side of a potentially violent conflict, an opportunity exists to exercise compassion and diminish fear based on recognition of each other's humanity. Without such recognition, fear fueled by uninformed assumptions, cultural prejudice, desperation to meet basic human needs, or the panicked uncertainty of the moment explodes into violence."
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"Whether we consider hip-hop as an evolved manifestation of the Harlem Renaissance or something completely new under the sun, it clearly has moved beyond the stage of just entertaining lives to that of informing and empowering lives."
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"Politics, as a practice, whatever its profession, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds."
8
"Christianity is part of the Common Law of England."
8
"The best an American can look forward to is the lonely pleasure of one who stands at long last on a chilly and inhospitable mountaintop where few have been before, where few can follow and where few will consent to believe he has been."
8
"I don't look to find an educated person in the ranks of university graduates, necessarily. Some of the most educated people I know have never been near a university."
8
"Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity."
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"What is interesting about self-analysis is that it leads nowhere - it is an art form in itself."
8
"In fact, the confidence of the people is worth more than money."
8
"To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious."
8
"If Liberia has failed, then, it is no evidence of the failure of the Negro in government. It is merely evidence of the failure of slavery."
8
"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."
8
"The last three decades have seen the collapse of the family wage system."
8
"I think you will find scientists that think like you in Germany and Britain, and you will find politicians that think like Weinberger. I think the most bellicose ruling group in the Western world at the moment is the British."
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"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely."
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"One certain effect of war is to diminish freedom of expression."
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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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"No people do so much harm as those who go about doing good."
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