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Quotes by Historian
"In nine times out of ten, the slanderous tongue belongs to a disappointed person."
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"We must never throw away a bushel of truth because it happens to contain a few grains of chaff."
8
"The force of the advertising word and image dwarfs the power of other literature in the 20th century."
8
"The acknowledgement of a single possibility can change everything."
8
"I think that the U.S. does have this very much more open attitude, and I admire it very much and I think it's very important to the world. But the information and the discussion sometimes come too late, after the effective decision has been made."
8
"For two decades the state has been taking liberties, and these liberties were once ours."
7
"One sometimes feels a guest of one's time and not a member of its household."
7
"Liberals subscribe to the new flexible, pluralistic definition of the family; their defense of families carries no conviction."
7
"An image is not simply a trademark, a design, a slogan or an easily remembered picture. It is a studiously crafted personality profile of an individual, institution, corporation, product or service."
7
"The National League was born the following year, as an attempt to exert the control of capital over labor."
7
"It is the goal of the American university to be the brains of the republic."
7
"I have nothing revolutionary or even novel to offer."
7
"We, to some degree, are like what we are because we inherited certain things from the Greeks and the Romans. One of them that's so striking is the whole area of politics."
7
"A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops."
7
"More fundamentally, it is a dream that does not die with the onset of manhood: the dream is to play endlessly, past the time when you are called home for dinner, past the time of doing chores, past the time when your body betrays you past time itself."
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"And so while the great ones depart to their dinner, the secretary stays, growing thinner and thinner, racking his brain to record and report what he thinks that they think that they ought to have thought."
7
"If the Negroes are to remain forever removed from the producing atmosphere, and the present discrimination continues, there will be nothing left for them to do."
7
"This assumption of Negro leadership in the ghetto, then, must not be confined to matters of religion, education, and social uplift; it must deal with such fundamental forces in life as make these things possible."
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"Throughout the human experience people have read history because they felt that it was a pleasure and that it was in some way instructive. The profession of professor of history has taken it in a very different direction."
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"Hearts rebuilt from hope resurrect dreams killed by hate."
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"The so-called modern education, with all its defects, however, does others so much more good than it does the Negro, because it has been worked out in conformity to the needs of those who have enslaved and oppressed weaker peoples."
7
"Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind."
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"This means that they are bound by law and custom to plough the fields of their masters, harvest the corn, gather it into barns, and thresh and winnow the grain; they must also mow and carry home the hay, cut and collect wood, and perform all manner of tasks of this kind."
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"The author takes the position that the consumer pays the tax, and as such every individual of the social order should be given unlimited opportunity to make the most of himself."
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