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Samuel Eliot Morison has 23 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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The freedmen were not really free in 1865, nor are most of their descendants really free in 1965. Slavery was but one…
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Dream dreams and write them aye, but live them first.
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Make no mistake; the American Revolution was not fought to obtain freedom, but to preserve the liberties that Americans already had as…
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America was discovered accidentally by a great seaman who was looking for something else; when discovered it was not wanted; and most…
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The cruel policy initiated by Columbus and pursued by his successors resulted in complete genocide.
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If the European discovery had been delayed for a century or two, it is possible that the Aztec in Mexico or the…
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If the American Revolution had produced nothing but the Declaration of Independence, it would have been worth while. . . . The…
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But sea power has never led to despotism. The nations that have enjoyed sea power even for a brief period-Athens, Scandinavia, the…
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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…
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The same contingencies of time and space that force a statesman or soldier to make decisions, impel the historian, though with less…
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Franklin may . . . be considered one of the founding fathers of American democracy, since no democratic government can last long…
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A tough but nervous, tenacious but restless race [the Yankees]; materially ambitious, yet prone to introspection, and subject to waves of religious…
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The world is not dialectical - it is sworn to extremes, not to equilibrium, sworn to radical antagonism, not to reconciliation or…
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Pakistan is heir to an intellectual tradition of which the illustrious exponent was the poet and philosopher Mohammad Iqbal. He saw the…
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Building art is a synthesis of life in materialised form. We should try to bring in under the same hat not a…
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Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal…
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Woes and wonders of Power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea.
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Harmonizing opposites by going back to their source is the distinctive quality of the Zen attitude, the Middle Way: embracing contradictions, making…
— Taisen Deshimaru
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Evolution: The Modern Synthesis.
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In 1945 J.A. Ratcliffe ... suggested that I [join his group at Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge] to start an investigation of the radio…
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Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, and the desire for aesthetic perfection. Its…
— Richard Courant
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We have three approaches at our disposal: the observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation serves to assemble the data, reflection to…
— John Dewey
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A work of art is finished, from the point of view of the artist, when feeling and perception have resulted in a…
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...comparing the capacity of computers to the capacity of the human brain, I've often wondered, where does our success come from? The…
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