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Quotes by Historian
"The opera is like a husband with a foreign title - expensive to support, hard to understand and therefore a supreme social challenge."
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"Lincoln had no such person that he could talk with. Often, as a result, he debated with himself, and he would draw up a kind of list of the pros and cons of an argument, and carefully figure them out, and he might test them in public."
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"There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary qualities. They will not bear discussion."
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"The first duty of an historian is to be on guard against his own sympathies."
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"Viewed narrowly, all life is universal hunger and an expression of energy associated with it."
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"In the United States today, the Declaration of Independence hangs on schoolroom walls, but foreign policy follows Machiavelli."
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"A nation that forgets its past can function no better than an individual with amnesia."
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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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"The different ness of races, moreover, is no evidence of superiority or of inferiority. This merely indicates that each race has certain gifts which the others do not possess."
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"Man ceased to be an ape, vanquished the ape, on the day the first book was written."
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"We are incredibly heedless in the formation of our beliefs, but find ourselves filled with an illicit passion for them when anyone proposed to rob us of their companionship."
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"Japanese naval officers in dress whites are frequent guests at Pearl Harbor's officers' mess and are very polite. They always were. Except, of course, for that little interval there between 1941 and 1945."
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"A man of such obvious and exemplary charm must be a liar."
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"Still the question remains of what actually speaks in a poem, if not subjectivity as historically constructed."
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"In time I began to understand that it's when you start writing that you really find out what you don't know and need to know."
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"The long term versus the short term argument is one used by losers."
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"Everywhere I have sought rest and not found it, except sitting in a corner by myself with a little book."
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"Common sense varies among the young, as among the old."
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"The growth of constitutional government, as we now understand it, was promoted by the establishment of two different sets of machinery for making laws and carrying on government."
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"If the white man wants to hold on to it, let him do so; but the Negro, so far as he is able, should develop and carry out a program of his own."
Man,
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"The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with discretion."
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