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“As my former Yale colleague Rogers Smith has put it: "Elegance is not worth that price.” quote by John Lewis Gaddis — Download Open image

““As my former Yale colleague Rogers Smith has put it: "Elegance is not worth that price.””

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“I can’t take communism nor can you, but to cross this bridge I would hold hands with the Devil.”

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“Historical consciousness therefore leaves you, as does maturity itself, with a simultaneous sense of your own significance and insignificance. Like Friedrich's wanderer, you dominate a landscape even as you're diminished by it. You're suspended between sensibilities that are at odds with one another, but it's precisely within that suspension that your own identity--whether as a person or a historian--tends to…

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