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861 Historian Quotes

I think that we need history as much as we need bread or water or love.

Think Need History Love
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We learn much by tribulation, and by adversity our hearts are made better.

Learn Tribulation Hearts Made better
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Only those who [do] nothing [make] no mistakes.

Do Nothing Makes Mistakes
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Nothing ever invented provides such sustenance, such infinite reward for time spent, as a good book.

Noyhing Invented Infinite reward GoodBook
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We cannot insure success, but we can deserve it.
We Insure Success Deserve
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The great thing about the arts is that you can only learn to do it by doing it.

Great thing Art Learn Doing it
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a leader must look and act the part.

Leader Look Act Part
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Honesty, sincerity, and openness, I esteem essential marks of a good mind,

Honesty Sincerity Openess Mind
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Count the day lost at which the setting sun sees at its close no worthy action done.

Count Day Worthy Action
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A man who works for the immediate present and its immediate rewards is nothing but a fool.

Man Works Present Fool
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Every mind should be true to itself—should think, investigate and conclude for itself,

Mind True Itself Think
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It is not what we have that will make us a great nation; it is the way in which we use it.

What Make Nation Way
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Lord, grant that I may always be right, for Thou knowest I am hard to turn,

Lord Grant Right Hard
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patience which I assure you requires more force of character than does action.

Patience Requires Character Action
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To be unable to read was the ultimate measure of wretchedness.

Unable Read Measure Wretchedness
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A man who has not better government of his tongue, no more command of his temper, is unfit for everything but children’s play and the company of boys.

Man Government Command Temper
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You will ever remember that all the end of study is to make you a good man and a useful citizen,

You Study Good man Citizen
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Skepticism is the agent of reason against organized irrationalism--and is therefore one of the keys to human social and civic decency.

Skepticism The agent Organized irrationalism Human social
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Life is short, and potential studies infinite. We have a much better chance of accomplishing something significant when we follow our passionate interests and work in areas of deepest personal meaning.

Life Is short Potential studies Infinite
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Science is not a heartless pursuit of objective information; it is a creative human activity.

Science Heartless pursuit Objective information Creative
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When people learn no tools of judgment and merely follow their hopes, the seeds of political manipulation are sown.

People learn Judgment Their hopes Political manipulation
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People talk about human intelligence as the greatest adaptation in the history of the planet. It is an amazing and marvelous thing, but in evolutionary terms, it is as likely to do us in as to help us along.

Human intelligence Greatest adaptation The history The planet
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Science is an integral part of culture. It's not this foreign thing, done by an arcane priesthood. It's one of the glories of the human intellectual tradition.

Science Integral part Culture Foreign thing
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Nothing matches the holiness and fascination of accurate and intricate detail.

Nothing matches The holiness Fascination Accurate intricate detail
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Geology gave us the immensity of time and taught us how little of it our own species has occupied.

Geology The immensity Time Taught us
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The causes of life's history cannot resolve the riddle of life's meaning.

The causes Life's history Cannot resolve Life's meaning
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If we use the past only to creature heroes for present purposes, we will never understand the richness of human thought or the plurality of ways of knowing.

We use The past Creature heroes Present purpose
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Alter any event, ever so slightly and without apparent importance at the time, and evolution cascades into radically different channel.

Alter Any event Apparent importance The time
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Knowledge and wonder are the dyad of our worthy lives as intellectual beings.

Knowledge Wonder Worthy lives Intellectual beings
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We must categorize and simplify in order to comprehend. But the reduction of complexity entails a great danger, since the line between enlightening epitome and vulgarized distortion is so fine.

Must categorized Simplify Comprehend The reduction
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Evolution is one of the two or three most primally fascinating subjects in all the sciences.

Evolution Fascinating subjects The sciences
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A lot of scientists hate writing. Most scientists love being in the lab and doing the work and when the work is done, they are finished.

Scientist Hate writing Love being The lab
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I don't think academic writing ever was wonderful. However, science used to be much less specialized.

Academic writing Was wonderful Science Less specialized
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At a minimum, in explaining evolutionary pathways through time, the constraints imposed by history rise to equal prominence with the immediate advantages of adaptation.

A minimum Evolutionary pathways Through time Constraints imposed
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Death is the ultimate enemy - and I find nothing reproachable in those who rage mightily against the dying of the light.

Death The ultimate enemy Nothing reproachable Rage mightily
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The more important the subject and the closer it cuts to the bone of our hopes and needs, the more we are likely to err in establishing a framework for analysis.

More important The subject The closer The bone
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Look in the mirror, and don't be tempted to equate transient domination with either intrinsic superiority or prospects for extended survival.

The mirror Be tempted To equate Transient domination
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All evolutionary biologists know that variation itself is nature's only irreducible essence.I had to place myself amidst the variation.

Evolutionary biologists Variation itself Is nature's Irreducible essence
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We pass through this world but once.

Pass through This world
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Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within.

Few tragedies More extensive Life Few injustices
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Creationist critics often charge that evolution cannot be tested, and therefore cannot be viewed as a properly scientific subject at all. This claim is rhetorical nonsense.

Creationist critics That evolution Be tested Be viewed
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What you see is that the most outstanding feature of life's history is a constant domination by bacteria.

Outstanding feature Life's history Constant domination By bacteria
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Life began three and a half billion years ago, necessarily about as simple as it could be, because life arose spontaneously from the organic compounds in the primeval oceans.

Life began Arose spontaneously Organic compounds Primeval oceans
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The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.

People Think Hopes Mind
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The ego is willing but the machine cannot go on. It's the last thing a man will admit, that his mind ages.

Ego Machine Man Mind
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The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.

Love Youth Old man Wife
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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
Knowledge Desire Pilot Soul
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Education is the transmission of civilization.

Education Transmission Civilization
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In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.

Youth Freedom Liberty Order
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One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.

Lessons History Good thing Clever
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