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Among those people lucky enough, if you will, to have actually been brought to trial as a political prisoner, several historians have said there has not been one acquittal since the Bolshevik Revolution. Barbara Amiel | top
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I believe that historians and analysts of historical events need the authority of facts supplied by living witnesses to the events, which they make their subject. Ibrahim Babangida | top
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The historian is, by definition, absolutely incapable of observing the facts which he examines. Marc Bloch | 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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It doesn't upset artists to find out that artists used lenses or mirrors or other aids, but it certainly does upset the art historians. Chuck Close | top
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Reviewers are usually people who would have been, poets, historians, biographer, if they could. They have tried their talents at one thing or another and have failed; therefore they turn critic. Samuel Taylor Coleridge | top
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It was necessary, as a black historian, to have a personal agenda. John Hope Franklin | top
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The first duty of an historian is to be on guard against his own sympathies. James Anthony Froude | 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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The search for the truth for truth's sake is the mark of the historian. B. H. Liddell Hart | top
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Nations without a past are contradictions in terms. What makes a nation is the past, what justifies one nation against others is the past, and historians are the people who produce it. Eric Hobsbawm | 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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I can see that you are a true historian because you really always ought to ask that question about anybody at a different place or a different time: What's the same and what's different? 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 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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Historians will have to face the fact that natural selection determined the evolution of cultures in the same manner as it did that of species. Konrad Lorenz | top
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Yet enthusiasm is no excuse for the historian going off balance. He should remind the reader that outcomes were neither inevitable nor foreordained, but subject to a thousand changes and chances. Samuel E. Morison | top
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Every historian discloses a new horizon. George Sand | top
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You'd have to have one hell of an imagination to completely make up a story, but historians are very anal about what they think should be portrayed on screen. Thankfully they don't make movies; we do. Dougray Scott | top
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I didn't realize the president was such an historian. Mark Shields | top
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The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent. Stendhal | top
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You're not a historian, but most historians will tell you that they make very discrete judgment as to what facts to omit in order to make their book into some shape, some length that can be managed. Oliver Stone | top
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I'm a historian in my own mind. Quentin Tarantino | top
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To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse. Barbara Tuchman | top
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So with truth - there is a certain moment when one can say, this is the truth and here I put a dot, a stop, and I go to another thing. A judge has to put an end to a deliberation. But for a historian, there's never an end to the past. It can go on and on and on. A. B. Yehoshua | top