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    An Engineer is no match for a Historian with his dander up!

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    Anne Romaine [ is ]folk singer and a skillful historian, even though she was not formally trained in the field [of Malcolm X].

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    An historian without political passions is as rare as a wasp without a sting.

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    But I'm a historian. I wasn't interested in just being a producer, I was interested in doing research and presenting that research to a general public

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    As a historian I refuse to recognize an epochal boundary before the fact.

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    As all historians know, the past is a great darkness, and filled with echoes.

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    David Irving is not just a Fascist historian. He is also a great historian of Fascism.

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    Computer scientists are the historians of computing.

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    Every historian discloses a new horizon.

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    Churchill was a good writer but a bad historian.

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    Despite the documented evidence by chess historian HJR Murray, I've always thought that chess was invented by a goddess

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    Each time history repeats itself, the price goes up.

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    Every historian has informally an anthropology, without ever using the word.

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    Future historians will surely see us as having created in the media a Frankenstein monster whom no one knows how to control ordirect, and marvelthat weshould have so meekly subjected ourselves to its destructive and often malign influence.

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    For historians, creative writers provide a kind of pornography.

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    Heart and head are contrary historians.

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    From time to time historians need to be shocked.

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    Hindsight is the historian's necessary vice.

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    Historians are dangerous and capable of turning everything upside down. They have to be watched.

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    Historians are gossips who tease the dead

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    Historians are prophets with their face turned backward.

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    History - an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant

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    History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten.

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    History does not repeat itself. The historians repeat one another.

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    History never repeats itself, historians do.

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    History was a series of decisions about what to tell and a series of accidents about what survived after telling. Not truth, but a historian could search for truth, and the search was as worthy as any other human activity.

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    How well Shakespeare knew how to improve and exalt little circumstances, when he borrowed them from circumstantial or vulgar historians.

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    I can see that you [Bruce Cole] 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?

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    I don't really have a historical overview of my work at all. I'm not an art historian. I don't see that there's this period and that period.

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    Good historians, I suspect, whether they think about it or not, have the future in their bones. Besides the question: Why? the historian also asks the question: Whither?

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    I am not a historian. I don't see what I do as being a rival to biography.

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    If historians are not skeptical, they are nothing.

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    If historians of philosophy are to be divided into those who focus on discontinuities and those who focus on continuities, I belong in the latter camp.

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    If I were an antiquarian, I would have eyes only for old stuff, but I am a historian. Therefore, I love life.

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    I feel slightly uneasy at the way historians are consulted as if history is going to repeat itself. It never does.

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    I feel like I've always been a full-time historian, but nobody knows it.

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    I'm a historian, and that freaks me out.

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    If you think about it, the historian's task is like that of the detective.

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    I'm a historian, I think history matters, but we don't have to be slavish in following it and restoring it.

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    If the historian will be faithful to the photograph, the photograph will be faithful to history.

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    In a certain sense all men are historians.

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    I only became a novelist because I thought I had missed my chance to become a historian.

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    I see myself as a recorder of history, sort of a visual historian.

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    It has always been difficult for historians to fully grasp the intelligence of painters.

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    I think poets tell better history than historians. Historians lie all the time but the poets can get to truth of it.

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    I think there's a tide that tends to carry historians back to the past.

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    I worked for a brief spell as a journalist, but soon I discovered that I didn't want to be a journalist - I wanted to be a historian.

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    I think it's outrageous if a historian has a 'leading thought' because it means they will select their material according to their thesis

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    It is also the fate of leadership to be misunderstood. For historians, academics, writers and journalists to reflect great lives according to their own subjective canon.

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    Journalists who make mistakes get sued for libel; historians who make mistakes get to publish a revised edition.