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Quotes by Historian
"Award trophies, as opposed to letting the players define and claim their own. Ultimately, pay them to play so that their activity not only resembles work but is work."
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"Writers are frequently asked why they wrote their first book. A more interesting answer might come from asking them why they wrote their second one."
42
"The individual always realizes only one of the possibilities in its development, which could always have taken a different turning whenever it has to make an important decision."
42
"Every age yearns for a more beautiful world. The deeper the desperation and the depression about the confusing present, the more intense that yearning."
42
"Yet for my part, deeply as I am moved by the religious architecture of the Middle Ages, I cannot honestly say that I ever felt the slightest emotion in any modern Gothic church."
42
"The gigantic Gaul derided the Roman soldiers as a band of pigmies."
42
"To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it."
42
"The mere imparting of information is not education."
42
"Wealth brings strength, strength confidence."
42
"Beauty is an outward gift which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused."
42
"The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play."
42
"Most people no longer live in nuclear families at all."
42
"The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern."
42
"A best-seller was a book which somehow sold well because it was selling well."
41
"A military road led from this point to Fort Leavenworth, and for many miles the farms and cabins of the Delawares were scattered at short intervals on either hand."
41
"To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship."
41
"The materials of the novelist must be real; they must be gathered from the field of humanity by his actual observation."
41
"It is easier to criticize than to correct our past errors."
41
"Prison continues, on those who are entrusted to it, a work begun elsewhere, which the whole of society pursues on each individual through innumerable mechanisms of discipline."
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"In an age where history is recorded on T-shirts, the very notion of dwelling on the deep structure of an experience has come to appear both arcane and archaic."
41
"Great writers are the saints for the godless."
41
"But the citizens of Cincinnati loved their Reds because they won, no matter what their addresses had been the year before. They rooted for the Old-English 'C' on the players' shirts."
Old,
41
"Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal."
41
"Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success."
41
"It is better that a guilty man should not be brought to trial than that he should be acquitted."
Man,
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"A soil, exhausted by the long culture of Pagan empires, was to lie fallow for a still longer period."
40
"Many attempts had been made by colonial legislatures to cut off or to tax the importation of slaves."
Tax,
40
"Practical politics consists in ignoring facts."
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