"History is admirably dangerous. It is not the……" — Simon Schama
"History is admirably dangerous. It is not the soft option. Teachers need to be grown up and brave. Sensitivity is fine, but it stops at the door of honest narrative."
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57 Quotes by Simon Schama
Simon Schama has 57 quotes on this site.
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But it struck me that the extreme violence and cruelty of the English Civil War had gone understated.
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Historians are left forever chasing shadows, painfully aware of their inability ever to reconstruct a dead world in its completeness…
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There are some places where history just grabs you by the jugular. This is one of them.
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From the days of the Founding Fathers, right to this (2008) election, how and where America fights to defend its…
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From 1789, perhaps even before that, it had been the willingness of politicians to exploit either the threat or the…
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Even for the most excitable preacher, there was nothing inherently sinful about a waffle.
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The next worse thing to a battle lost is a battle won.
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I'm helplessly and permanently a Red Sox fan. It was like first love...You never forget. It's special. It's the first…
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DIY, cricket, automobile repair. I could study it for a lifetime and not produce a word on the carburettor.
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What can art really do in the face of atrocity?
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Great art has dreadful manners. The greatest paintings grab you in a headlock, rough up your composure, and then proceed…
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Landscapes are culture before they are nature; constructs of the imagination projected onto wood and water and rock. It is...…
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Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
— Bertolt Brecht
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Buffon, who, with all his theoretical ingenuity and extraordinary eloquence, I suspect had little actual information in the science on…
— James Boswell
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How can it be that mathematics, being after all a product of human thought which is independent of experience, is…
— Albert Einstein
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Gorbachev's stance contrasts admirably with the policy of the sainted Abraham Lincoln, who used massive force and mass murder to…
— Murray Rothbard
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It is the mission of the pedagogue, not to make his pupils think, but to make them think right, and…
— H. L. Mencken
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Educating Lawyers succeeds admirably in describing the educational programs at virtually every American law school. The call for the integration…
— Unknown Author
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Show me a person without prejudice of any kind on any subject and I'll show you someone who may be…
— Allen Lacy
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None can teach admirably if not loving his task.
— Amos Bronson Alcott
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What science can there be more noble, more excellent, more useful for men, more admirably high and demonstrative, than this…
— Benjamin Franklin
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Adrienne Mayor's inquiry into the myth--and surprising reality--of Amazon women begins with the fierce Greek huntress Atalanta, but takes us…
— Steven Saylor
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Exploring Ecclesiology is true to its subtitle, being both vibrantly evangelical and admirably ecumenical; it is commendable for its depth,…
— Carl E. Olson
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Chrysostom, I remember, mentions a twofold book of God: the book of the creatures, and the book of the scriptures.…
— Cotton Mather
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