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Study men, not historians.
Harry S. Truman
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33Rd U.s. President
Men
Historian
Study
Historians
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Leave history to historians.
Ali Babacan
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Turkish Politician
Historians
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Most historians are engaged in fiction.
Peter Morgan
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Film Writer
Engaged
Historians
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God cannot alter the past, though historians can.
Samuel Butler
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Author
Education
God
History
Historical
Past
Alter
Cannot
Historians
Though
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History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other.
Philip Guedalla
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Writer
Education
Funny
History
Humor
History Repeats Itself
Itself
Each
Historians
Other
Repeat
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Historians are prophets of the past, not of the future.
Heather Cox Richardson
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Historians
Prophets
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The best writers attempt to become alternative historians.
Colum Mccann
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Writer
Alternative
Attempt
Historians
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We are not merely historians but also and always citizens.
Tony Judt
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Historian
Citizens
Historian
Historians
Merely
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Well goodness knows, goodness knows what historians will write.
Alexander Downer
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Former Member Of The Australian Parliament
Goodness
Historian
Writing
Historians
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I think there's a tide that tends to carry historians back to the past.
Ron Chernow
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Writer
Past
Thinking
Tides
Carry
Historians
Tends
Tide
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Historians tell the story of the past, novelists the story of the present.
Edmond De Goncourt
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Writer
Novelists
Past
Stories
Historians
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Americans are in vital need of the instruction that historians can provide.
Max Boot
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Author
Instruction
Historians
Vital
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Historians often find important decisions few knew were important at the time.
Michael Beschloss
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Historian
Important Decisions
Historians
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Presidential legacies are valuable things, too valuable to be left up to historians.
Thomas Frank
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Journalist
Legacy
Presidential
Valuable
Historians
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If historians don't tell stories at the scales of creation myths, someone else will.
David Christian
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Historian
Creation
Scales
Historians
Myths
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We cannot leave history entirely to nonclinical observers and to professional historians.
Erik Erikson
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Psychologist
Observers
Leave
Entirely
Historians
We Cannot
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Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
Leo Tolstoy
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Writer
Funny
History
Humor
Deaf
Answering
Questions
Asked
Deaf People
Historians
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Historians tell us that a gentleman named John Ball once captured eight British Amateur titles.
Dan Jenkins
/
Author
Captured
Gentleman
Titles
Amateur
Named
Historians
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Historians who write about families are usually feminists who think in terms of gender relations.
Jane Ridley
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Feminists
Historians
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The idea that historians aren't affected by what goes on around them I think is slightly fanciful.
Kwasi Kwarteng
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Fanciful
Historians
Slightly
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Historians are the consummate hairdressers of the literary world: cooing in public, catty in private.
Craig Brown
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Catty
Consummate
Literary
Historians
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We should show Chernobyl to the world: scientists, environmental specialists, historians and tourists.
Volodymyr Zelensky
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Environmental
Specialists
Tourists
Historians
Scientists
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History had its own way of explaining things. The way historians explain things is by telling a story.
Donald Kagan
/
Historian
Explaining
Stories
Way
Explain
Historians
Telling
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History should not be left to the historians. Rather, be like Churchill. Make history, and then write it.
Ferdinand Marcos
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Former President Of The Philippines
Historian
Should
Writing
Churchill
Historians
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Let the historians and the Ph.D. students work out their doctrines. I'm not interested in theories per se.
Lee Kuan Yew
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Singaporean Politician
Not Interested
Work Out
Interested
Doctrines
Historians
Per
Theories
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Now, there are some who would like to rewrite history - revisionist historians is what I like to call them.
George W. Bush
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43Rd U.s. President
Historian
Rewriting History
Historians
Revisionist
Rewrite
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Where I think historians can help preserve and actually restore democracy is to remind us of how we got it.
Stacey Abrams
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Democracy
Historians
Preserve
Remind
Restore
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Social media might one day offer a dazzling, and even overwhelming, array of source material for historians.
Jenna Wortham
/
Dazzling
Overwhelming
Social Media Day Media
Array
Historians
Source Material
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The way we live history is not the way historians tell history. Our lives are messy and chaotic and bewildering.
David Grann
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Journalist
Chaotic
Messy
Bewildering
Historians
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To write history is so difficult that most historians are forced to make concessions to the technique of legende.
Erich Auerbach
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Literary Critic
Difficult
Technique
Writing
Forced
Historians
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Writers are historians, too. It is in literature that the greater truths about a people and their past are found.
F. Sionil José
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Writer
Found
Greater
Literature
Past
Too
Writers
Historians
Truths
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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.
Antony Beevor
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Historian
Doe
Historian
Uneasy
Way
Historians
Repeat
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Historians will likely give Obama credit for steering the country away from the brink of economic collapse in 2009.
Ron Fournier
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Journalist
Collapse
Country
Credit
Giving
Steering
Brink
Historians
Likely
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Some historians trace the start of the War on Terror to November 4, 1979, the day the hostages were taken in Tehran.
Stephen Rodrick
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November
Tehran
Terror
Historians
Hostages
Trace
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The Law and Justice government does not want a bunch of foreign historians to decide what goes on in 'their' museum.
Norman Davies
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Historian
Government Justice Law
Historians
Museum
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Historians sometimes view presidents very differently from the way the public did at the time. Sometimes they don't.
Michael Beschloss
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Historian
Historians
Presidents
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Traditionally art is to create and not to revive. To revive: leave that to the historians, who are looking backward.
Josef Albers
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Artist
Art
Historian
Revive
Tradition
Looking
Backward
Create
Leave
Historians
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Drawing on real life is what novelists do. It's not the same as reconstructing real life, which is what historians do.
Luke Davies
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Writer
Drawing
Novelists
Real Life
Life Real Real Life
Historians
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Sputnik quickly became one of the three great shocks to hit America - historians say the equal of Pearl Harbor or 9/11.
David Hoffman
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Documentary Filmmaker
Equal
Harbor
Historians
Pearl
Pearl Harbor
Quickly
Shocks
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Historians are going to look back on rising China and say America, at least under the Bush years, did not get that wrong.
Thomas P.m. Barnett
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Rising
Bush
Historians
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Historians will tell you that they deal with fact and empirical evidence. But that doesn't really help me understand a person.
James Mcbride
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Writer
Evidence
Me Will Person
Empirical
Me Help Will
Historians
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'Rome' plays on universal human emotions that hopefully people can relate to. Historians are always going to be offended by it.
Tobias Menzies
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Television Actor
Human Emotions
Offended
Relate
Rome
Historians
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As one of the very few black historians who, from time to time, appears on TV, my daily life is a constant, open-air focus group.
David Olusoga
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Daily Life
Life Time Daily
Appears
From Time To Time
Historians
Life Is A
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The idea that historians write the definitive version of something that will last for all time is less current than it used to be.
Norman Davies
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Historian
Version
Current
Definitive
Historians
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World War I was not inevitable, as many historians say. It could have been avoided, and it was a diplomatically botched negotiation.
Richard Holbrooke
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Diplomat
War
Avoided
Inevitable
Negotiation
World
World War I
Historians
World War
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Historians are a long way from being key workers. The best place for them is at home, reading their books and keeping out of the way.
David Olusoga
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Long Way
Historians
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Perhaps the most important lesson of the New Social Historians is that history belongs to those about whom or whose documents survive.
Bruce Jackson
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History
Documents
Social
Belongs
Historians
Important Lesson
Lesson
Perhaps
Survive
The Most Important
Whom
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The fall of Rome seemed unthinkable to people at the time but inevitable to historians reflecting upon it with the benefit of context.
Mary Pilon
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Fall
Inevitable
Reflecting
Rome
Unthinkable
Benefit
Context
Historians
Seemed
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Although this should not be so, historians reconsider presidencies based on how the presidents conduct themselves after leaving office.
H. W. Brands
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Leaving
Conduct
Historians
Presidents
Reconsider
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It doesn't upset artists to find out that artists used lenses or mirrors or other aids, but it certainly does upset the art historians.
Chuck Close
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Photographer
Art
Aids
Lenses
Mirrors
Photography
Upset
Artists
Certainly
Historians
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