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Privatization came on slowly. When something very big happens, like privatization, historians and economists like to think you must have had very big causes. That is not how it happened. Kenneth Baker | top
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Historian - a broad-gauge gossip. Ambrose Bierce | top
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You need, as a historian, essential triangulation from your subject and the only way you get that triangulation is through time. Ken Burns | top
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Now, there are some who would like to rewrite history - revisionist historians is what I like to call them. George W. Bush | top
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The historian's job is to aggrandize, promoting accident to inevitability and innocuous circumstance to portent. Peter Conrad | top
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Both the historian and the novelist view history as the struggle of a tiny minority, able and determined to make judgments, which is up against a vast and densely packed majority of the blind, who are led by their instincts and unable to think for themselves. Lion Feuchtwanger | top
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The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius. E. M. Forster | top
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I don't really have a historical overview of my work at all. I'm not an art historian. I don't see that there's this period and that period. Howard Hodgkin | top
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History had its own way of explaining things. The way historians explain things is by telling a story. Donald Kagan | top
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Fortunately, historians are now beginning to recognise the historic role of Islam as a liberating force for peoples oppressed by the burdens of unjust social systems. Aly Khan | top
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The historian of science may be tempted to exclaim that when paradigms change, the world itself changes with them. Thomas Kuhn | top
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I'm not an historian and I'm not wanting to write about how I perceive the social change over the century as a historian, but as somebody who's walked through it and whose life has been dictated by it too, as all our lives are. Penelope Lively | top
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I'm not an historian but I can get interested - obsessively interested - with any aspect of the past, whether it's palaeontology or archaeology or the very recent past. Penelope Lively | top
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Historians and archaeologists will one day discover that the ads of our time are the richest and most faithful reflections that any society ever made of its entire range of activities. Marshall McLuhan | top
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Historian: an unsuccessful novelist. H. L. Mencken | top
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Every historian with professional standards speaks or writes what he believes to be true. Samuel E. Morison | top
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Intellectual honesty is the quality that the public in free countries always has expected of historians; much more than that it does not expect, nor often get. Samuel E. Morison | top
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Too rigid specialization is almost as bad for a historian's mind, and for his ultimate reputation, as too early an indulgence in broad generalization and synthesis. Samuel E. Morison | top
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I ain't no historian but I happen to savvy this incident. Charles M. Russell | top
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Every historian discloses a new horizon. George Sand | top
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The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent. Stendhal | top
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I am not trying to be a historian and a dramatist; I'm a dramatist, a dramatic historian, or one who does a dramatic interpretation of history. Oliver Stone | top
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Historians still often see the end of the war as meaning nothing more for Germany than lost territories, lost participation in colonization, and lost assets for the state and individuals. They frequently overlook the most serious loss that Germany suffered. Gustav Stresemann | top
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Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them. Leo Tolstoy | top
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If Germany, thanks to Hitler and his successors, were to enslave the European nations and destroy most of the treasures of their past, future historians would certainly pronounce that she had civilized Europe. Simone Weil | top
