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I'm no politician. I'm an historian who has learned through a lifetime of studying that nothing in the world beats universal education. Stephen Ambrose | top
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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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Now, to describe the process of the Wrapped Reichstag, which went from 1971 to '95, there is an entire book about that, because each one of our projects has its own book. The book is not an art book, meaning it's not written by an art historian. Christo | top
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What is a historian, anyway? It is someone who uses facts to record the development of humanity. Lion Feuchtwanger | top
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In taking action we must remember that the things which are happening to the Jews today are but a part of the general disintegration anticipated by philosophers and historians of different schools for almost half a century. Louis Finkelstein | 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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Every historian has informally an anthropology, without ever using the word. Peter Gay | top
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The way in which mathematicians and physicists and historians talk is quite different, and what a physicist means by physical intuition and what a mathematician means by beauty or elegance are things worth thinking about. Clifford Geertz | top
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Historians tell the story of the past, novelists the story of the present. Edmond de Goncourt | top
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Britain will be honoured by historians more for the way she disposed of an empire than for the way in which she acquired it. Lord Harlech | top
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Oh no, I'm not a historian or anything like that. Lee Hazlewood | 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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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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The writer's language is to some degree the product of his own action; he is both the historian and the agent of his own language. Paul de Man | 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 learned more from my mother than from all the art historians and curators who have informed me about technical aspects of art history and art appreciation over the years. David Rockefeller | 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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It is useful to the historian, among others, to be able to see the commonest forms of different phenomena, whether phonetic, morphological or other, and how language lives, carries on and changes over time. Ferdinand de Saussure | top
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But in answer to your question about the conspiracy angle, I think that any historian worth his salt, and this is where I fault Stephen Ambrose and a lot of these guys who attack me - not all of life is a result of conspiracy by any means! Accident occurs alongside conspiracy. Oliver Stone | top
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Study men, not historians. Harry S. Truman | top
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To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse. Barbara Tuchman | top
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I hope that not only my documentaries, but everybody's documentaries, last. It will really confuse historians in the next century, because they'll have, in addition to all the print material, they'll have all these pictures to look at. Frederick Wiseman | top
