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Quotes by Historian
"No people do so much harm as those who go about doing good."
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"There is nothing that is more often clothed in an attractive garb than a false creed."
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"The corruption of people is to behave in an inhuman way."
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"Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim."
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"Conscience is the mirror of our souls, which represents the errors of our lives in their full shape."
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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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"With my ninth mind I resurrect my firstand dance slow to the music of my soul made new."
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"Poetry, like jazz, is one of those dazzling diamonds of creative industry that help human beings make sense out of the comedies and tragedies that contextualize our lives."
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"The same historical development that turned the citizen into a client transformed the worker from a producer into a consumer."
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"It's commonly said that people who've been ill in childhood and who've had an upset education never really regret that they do. It means that you don't look at the world in the way that other people do, and if you were inclined to be a writer, that's a help."
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"The most important American addition to the World Experience was the simple surprising fact of America. We have helped prepare mankind for all its later surprises."
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"Even in November 1938, after five years of anti-Semitic legislation and persecution, they still owned, according to the Times correspondent in Berlin, something like a third of the real property in the Reich."
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"The strongest bank in the United States will last only so long as the people will have sufficient confidence in it to keep their money there."
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"Time (again, Time) like the soul, wears many faces, many bodies and climates and attitudes. The past is one face, the present a second and the future yet another."
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"Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading."
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"I can fairly be called an amateur because I do what I do, in the original sense of the word - for love, because I love it. On the other hand, I think that those of us who make our living writing history can also be called true professionals."
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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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"We are living in an era in which billions of people are grappling to promote communication, tolerance, and understanding over the more destructive forces of war, terrorism, and political chaos that have characterized the beginning of the 21st Century."
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"Historical methodology, as I see it, is a product of common sense applied to circumstances."
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"History had its own way of explaining things. The way historians explain things is by telling a story."
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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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"Autobiography is an unrivaled vehicle for telling the truth about other people."
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"Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake it for a universal one."
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"As civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines."
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