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Indeed, the distribution of wealth is too important an issue to be left to economists, sociologists, historians, and philosophers. — Thomas Piketty
Writers and other artists are mostly just historians, produced by nature to describe, decipher and thus historically represent the universe. — Robert Black
Historians don't really like to carry on speculative debates, but you could certainly argue that the likelihood of a Soviet invasion of Western Europe was… — Aldrich Ames
When we see the human race, we must see before all else environment and food. Historians write about social change without taking these factors into… — Michio Kushi
Radical historians now the tell the story of Thanksgiving from the point of view of the turkey. — Mason Cooley
The issue of civil rights was too much for the establishment to handle. One of the chapters of history thats least studied by historians is… — Tom Hayden
In real life turning points are sneaky. They pass by unlabeled and unheeded. Opportunities are missed, catastrophes unwittingly celebrated. Turning points are only uncovered later,… — Kate Morton
But, historians, and even common sense, may inform us, that, however specious these ideas of perfect equality may seem, they are really, at bottom, impracticable;… — David Hume
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… — Ibrahim Babangida
Future historians, I hope, will consider the American fast food industry a relic of the twentieth century--a set of attitudes, systems, and beliefs that emerged… — Eric Schlosser
It is certain that the greatest poets, orators, statesmen, and historians, men of the most brilliant and imposing talents, have labored as hard, if not… — Orison Swett Marden
When critics or art historians or curators ask me why I still paint, the answer is that I am not naive. — Unknown Author
When I meet a historian who cannot think that there have been great men, great men moreover in politics, I feel myself in the presence… — Geoffrey Elton
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… — Samuel Eliot Morison
I think there's a tide that tends to carry historians back to the past. — Ron Chernow
I think a single sentence by Van Gogh is better than the whole work of all the art critics and art historians put together. — John Olsen
Revisionist historians are about to get their hands on the Thatcher years, shes probably going to be looked at again because she feels far enough… — Jonathan Coe
There are some historians who say that democratic republics dont last more than 200 years. Well, weve got to show that you can last more… — Maurice Hinchey
Herschel Grynszpan's life was enigmatic, elusive and tragic. The traces he left on the historical record are just sufficient to tantalize and baffle historians. Harlan… — Janette Turner Hospital
I have learned more [from Balzac] than from all the professional historians, economists, and statisticians put together. — Friedrich Engels
Let's give the historians something to write about — Propertius
I feel slightly uneasy at the way historians are consulted as if history is going to repeat itself. It never does. — Antony Beevor
No, this customary aim of research by excavators is completely foreign to the historical work with which I am occupied... my sole and only aim… — Heinrich Schliemann
History never repeats itself, historians do. — Lee Benson
Historians in the future, in my opinion, will congratulate us on very little other than our clowning and our jazz. — Kurt Vonnegut

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