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I didn't realize the president was such an historian.


Mark Shields
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It was necessary, as a black historian, to have a personal agenda.


John Hope Franklin
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The search for the truth for truth's sake is the mark of the historian.


B. H. Liddell Hart
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What is a historian, anyway? It is someone who uses facts to record the development of humanity.


Lion Feuchtwanger
A good historian is timeless; although he is a patriot, he will never flatter his country in any respect.
Francois Fenelon
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I lay no claim, it should be clear, to being a historian. So in my books, the intimate and personal have been intertwined inextricably with the broad and historical.
Khaled Hosseini
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I'm not a politician or a scholar or political historian. I'm just a photographer who's trying to capture a spirit. It's not an intellectual process; it's an intuitive process.
Platon
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Gossip is hardly uplifting.


Ginger Rogers
I went to medical school after having decided to do so somewhere between my junior and senior year at Harvard - very late. I initially wanted to be an intellectual historian.
Eric Kandel
The real point of me isn't that I'm good looking. It's that I'm clever. I've got a brain! I would rather be called a highly intelligent historian than a gorgeous pouting one.
Niall Ferguson
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I can see that you are a true historian because you really always ought to ask that question about anybody at a different place or a different time: What's the same and what's different?
Donald Kagan
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I get my gossip from 'Nashville' on ABC.


Caitlin Rose
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Gossip is called gossip because it's not always the truth.


Justin Timberlake
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.
Teju Cole
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Knowing policy does help make the gossip more understandable.


Tabitha Soren
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I conduct very few interviews with veterans. The contemporaneous, or near-contemporaneous, record for WWII is so spectacularly deep that latter-day recollections are largely unnecessary for a historian. Of course, in considering any account, I'm looking for additional sources that can confirm or enlarge that version of events.
Rick Atkinson
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Both the historian and the novelist view history as the struggle of a tiny minority, able and determined to make judgments, which is up against a vast and densely packed majority of the blind, who are led by their instincts and unable to think for themselves.
Lion Feuchtwanger
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I loved 'The O.C.' and I totally watch 'Gossip Girl,' too!


Spencer Grammer
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Popularizing - much less venturing beyond one's secure turf - was frowned upon for many years. I think I probably internalized the prohibition, even though I was - and knew I was - among the best speakers and writers of my age cohort. I don't mean I was the best historian - a quite different measure.
Tony Judt
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I can't stand the gossip of celebrities' lives, all the time! Every minute!


William Shatner
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