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Quotes by Historian
"Contention is inseparable from creating knowledge. It is not contention we should try to avoid, but discourses that attempt to suppress contention."
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"The true call of a Christian is not to do extraordinary things, but to do ordinary things in an extraordinary way."
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"No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself."
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"We were now, as I before mentioned, upon this St. Joseph's trail. It was evident, by the traces, that large parties were a few days in advance of us; and as we too supposed them to be Mormons, we had some apprehension of interruption."
Now,
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"The best portraits are those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature."
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"Often, what you see in the media is driven by economic forces."
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"The populace is like the sea motionless in itself, but stirred by every wind, even the lightest breeze."
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"We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street an Broadway."
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"My shorthand answer is that I try to write the kind of book that I would like to read. If I can make it clear and interesting and compelling to me, then I hope maybe it will be for the reader."
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"Propaganda in the ordinary sense of the term plays a less important part in a consumer society, where people greet all official pronouncements with suspicion."
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"There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence."
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"Fanaticism obliterates the feelings of humanity."
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"The reporting of news has to be understood as propaganda for commodities, and events by images."
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"Many Americans first fell in love with the poetry of the thirteenth century teacher and spiritual leader Jelalludin Rumi during the early 1990s when the unparalleled lyrical grace, philosophical brilliance, and spiritual daring of his work took modern Western readers completely by surprise. The impact of its soulful beauty and the depth of its profound humanity were so intense that they reportedly prompted numerous individuals to spontaneously compose poetry."
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"Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions."
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"Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think."
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"The American President resembles the commander of a ship at sea. He must have a helm to grasp, a course to steer, a port to seek."
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"The existence of inherent limits of experience in no way settles the question about the subordination of facts of the human world to our knowledge of matter."
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"Revenge is profitable, gratitude is expensive."
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"I would I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours."
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"The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error."
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"Skepticism is an important historical tool. It is the starting point of all revision of hitherto accepted history."
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"Ancient metaphysics underwent many changes at the hands of medieval thinkers who brought it in line with the dominant religious and theological movements of their day."
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"Like their predecessors, the Presidents of today just throw up their hands."
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"In Gaul were two orders, the nobility and the priesthood, while the people, says Caesar, were all slaves."
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"It is advertising and the logic of consumerism that governs the depiction of reality in the mass media."
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"There is something very intriguing about, for example, the sense of accomplishment that a small child has, which you might be able to reduce to aggression and libido, but which might also have some independent existence."
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"But history is neither watchmaking nor cabinet construction. It is an endeavor toward better understanding."
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