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Even now, the irony that so non-intellectual a man should choose to engage the Soviet Union on the battlefield of ideas has eluded most commentators… — Richard Perle
Let's put it this way. I question whether 6 million Jews actually died in Nazi death camps. There are two major sources for Holocaust stories.… — David Duke
In the end it may well be that Britain will be honored by the historians more for the way she disposed of an empire than… — David Ormsby-Gore, 5th Baron Harlech
If only the sense of actuality can be lulled-and it sleeps for ever in most historians-there is no passion that cannot be gratified in the… — E. M. Forster
When I first collected these authorities, I was desirous that every quotation should be useful to some other end than the illustration of a word;… — Samuel Johnson
Two main groups like to drop the readymade bomb—galleries and art historians. Galleries love to drop the Duchamp brand because dealers can try to convince… — Paddy Johnson
Artists are the emotional historians of the world. — Richard Blanco
I am among those who believe that our Western civilization is on its way to perishing. It has many commendable qualities, most of which it… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
In history as it comes to be written, there is usually some Spirit of the Age which historians can define, but the shape of things… — Joseph Wood Krutch
... we will hope that future historians will explain the morbid symptoms of present-day society as the childhood ailments of an aspiring humanity, due entirely… — Albert Einstein
Historians tell the story of the past, novelists the story of the present. — Edmond de Goncourt
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… — Gustav Stresemann
How something important happens is the business of historians and newspapers, the effect it has is the business of philosophers and writers and especially poets. — Karl Shapiro
The astrologers and historians write that the ascendant as of Oxford is Capricornus, whose lord is Saturn, a religious planet, and patron of religious men. — John Aubrey
Future historians will be able to study at the Jimmy Carter Library, the Gerald Ford Library, the Ronald Reagan Library, and the Bill Clinton Adult… — George Carlin
The student of biology is often struck with the feeling that historians, when dealing with the rise and fall of nations, do not generally view… — Ronald Ross
A few hints as to literary craftsmanship may be useful to budding historians. First and foremost, get writing! — Samuel Eliot Morison
The novel is a formidable mass, and it is so amorphous - no mountain in it to climb, no Parnassus or Helicon, not even a… — E. M. Forster
Most historians agree that Abraham Lincoln was the most important man to ever occupy the White House because he abolished slavery and kept the states… — Kitty Kelley
There's certainly more new SF available than when I started writing. That means there's also more bad SF available. Whether there is also more good… — Alan Dean Foster
Well goodness knows, goodness knows what historians will write. — Alexander Downer
Traditionally art is to create and not to revive. To revive: leave that to the historians, who are looking backward. — Josef Albers
It may seem unfashionable to say so, but historians should seize the imagination as well as the intellect. History is, in a sense, a story,… — Peter Ackroyd
Scholars and historians have dubbed the last 100 years the American Century, and I think there can be little doubt that the Council on Foreign… — Spencer Abraham
Social historians of the future no doubt will be amused by the fact that we late-twentieth-century Americans found it acceptable to discuss publicly in detail… — Mary Ann Glendon

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