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861 Historian Quotes

Sovereignty must not be used for inflicting harm on anyone, whether citizen or foreigner.

Anyone Citizen Foreigner Harm
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The attainment of the economic aims of man presupposes peace.

Aims Attainment Economic Man
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The philosophy of protectionism is a philosophy of war.

Philosophy Protectionism War Of
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The root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest.

Conquest Construction Dreadful Evil
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The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster.

Been Course Disaster History
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The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments.
Bad Endure Ever Evils
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To defeat the aggressors is not enough to make peace durable. The main thing is to discard the ideology that generates war.

Defeat Discard Durable Enough
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War can really cause no economic boom, at least not directly, since an increase in wealth never does result from destruction of goods.

Boom Cause Destruction Directly
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War prosperity is like the prosperity that an earthquake or a plague brings.
Brings Earthquake Like Plague
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War... is harmful, not only to the conquered but to the conqueror.

Conquered Conqueror Harmful Only
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Wars of aggression are popular nowadays with those nations convinced that only victory and conquest could improve their material well-being.

Aggression Conquest Convinced Could
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Whoever wants peace among nations must seek to limit the state and its influence most strictly.

Among Influence Limit Most
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Whoever wishes peace among peoples must fight statism.

Among Fight Must Peace
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Innovation is the whim of an elite before it becomes a need of the public.

Becomes Before Elite Innovation
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If history could teach us anything, it would be that private property is inextricably linked with civilization.

Anything Civilization Could History
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Human civilization is not something achieved against nature; it is rather the outcome of the working of the innate qualities of man.

Achieved Against Civilization Human
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Manufacturing and commercial monopolies owe their origin not to a tendency imminent in a capitalist economy but to governmental interventionist policy directed against free trade and laissez faire.

Against Capitalist Commercial Directed
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Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.

Amount Break Hearts Including
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A teacher enlarges people in all sorts of ways besides just his subject matter.

Besides His Just Matter
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I am a novelist. I traffic in subtleties, and my goal in writing a novel is to leave the reader not knowing what to think. A good novel shouldn't have a point.

Am Knowing Leave Knowing
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Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.

Judge Questions Answers
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Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.

Who Believe Absurdities Commit
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Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.

Man Every Guilty Good
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I should like to lie at your feet and die in your arms.

Lie Feet Die Arm
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Oh, I love labels, as long as they are numerous. I'm an American writer. I'm a Nigerian writer. I'm a Nigerian American writer. I'm an African writer. I'm a Yoruba writer. I'm an African American writer.

African African American American I Love
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One of the difficulties of photography is that it is much better at being explicit than at being reticent.

Being Better Difficulties Explicit
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Never say 'I went to Harvard.' Say 'I schooled in the Boston area.'

Area Boston Harvard Never
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Old-school hip hop, i.e., whatever was popular when you were nineteen, is great. Everything since then is intolerable.

Everything Great Hip Hip Hop
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Religion is close to theatre; much of its power comes from the effects of staging and framing.

Close Effects Framing Much
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Throughout his career, W.G. Sebald wrote poems that were strikingly similar to his prose. His tone, in both genres, was always understated but possessed of a mournful grandeur.

Always Both Career Genres
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In a Transtromer poem, you inhabit space differently; a body becomes a thing, a mind floats, things have lives, and even non-things, even concepts, are alive.

Alive Becomes Body Concepts
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Because I'm an art historian, I have some experience of writing that comes out of close attention. That's what really art history is. You're looking at something very closely, and you try to write in a meticulous way about it.

About Art Art History Attention
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When I've had enough of words, I go out into the city for a long walk; sometimes I'll go out walking for several miles. And I'll just take photographs and hope for something striking or unusual to happen that I can organize into a picture frame.

City Enough Frame Go
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One of the chief characteristics of a mob is its quickness. It is sudden. It pounces.

Characteristics Chief Mob Quickness
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Punitive murder by the police and by vigilantes has existed in all societies at some point, and probably still exists in most.

Existed Exists Most Point
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A mob is not, as is so often said, mindless. A mob is single-minded.
Mindless Mob Often Said
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I am suspicious of writers who say their work is original and influenced by nobody. If it is, it is probably uninteresting. The biggest source of novels is other novels.

Am Biggest I Am Influenced
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In 'Open City,' there is a passage that any reader of Joyce will immediately recognise as a very close, formal analogue of one the stories in 'Dubliners.' That is because a novel is also a literary conversation.

Also Any Because City
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I'd like to meet fewer people who say 'Oh, I want to write a book, here are 10 pages I've written,' and more 'Oh, I want to write a book, here are 300 pages I've written.'

Book Fewer Here Like
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For purposes of marketing, writers are designated as poets, novelists, or something else. But writing is about matchmaking, an attempt to marry sensations with apt words.

About Apt Attempt Else
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I'm not trying to be a poet on Twitter; I'm trying to be aware of the fact that a very simple sentence, well written, can have a very moving effect without that person knowing why. There's a deep genetic part of you that somehow, even without your permission, recognizes good language when it arrives.

Aware Deep Effect Even
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The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.

Medicine Consist Amusing Nature
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When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does not understand, that is metaphysics.

Speaks Understands Whom Metaphysics
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Of all religions, the Christian should of course inspire the most tolerance, but until now Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.

Religions Christian Tolerance Course
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We are rarely proud when we are alone.
Rarely Proud Alone
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A witty saying proves nothing

Witty Saying Proves
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We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongue, at our peril, risk and hazard.

Natural Right Pens Peril
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Common sense is not so common.

Common Sense So
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Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too.

Think Yourselves Others Privilege
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What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
Person Virtue Age Loss
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