Donald Kagan Quotes

#1. From the time I was a little boy I found myself reading history when I had a choice. I read a lot of things, but history had a special appeal for me.

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#2. All comparisons between America's current place in the world and anything legitimately called an empire in the past reveal ignorance and confusion about any reasonable meaning of the concept empire, especially the comparison with the Roman Empire.

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#3. I don't know what's waiting for me around the corner and I don't know what else I'm going to be doing in the future - but you've got to enjoy things while you're doing them. There are tough times and mountains to climb, but you've got to go for it.

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#4. Once again the historian who wishes to understand this difficult period must try to read between the lines. It

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#5. When white and black and brown and every other color decide they're going to live together as Christians, then and only then are we going to see an end to these troubles.

Barry Goldwater

#6. Life is not, nor ever has been, a straight line forward ... Life is characterized much more by exception and disorder than by total or perfect order.

Richard Rohr

#7. I'm happy to be helping people that are passionate about empowering parents for student learning.

Jeb Bush

#8. Because you were tired of fighting heaven, you relaxed in that exhausting adventure in which you had to mutilate souls and destroy the world. In short, you chose injustice and sided with the gods. Your logic was merely apparent. I,

Albert Camus

#9. We, to some degree, are like what we are because we inherited certain things from the Greeks and the Romans. One of them that's so striking is the whole area of politics.

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#10. History had its own way of explaining things. The way historians explain things is by telling a story.

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#11. Without history we are the prisoners of the accident of where and when we were born.

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#12. I think that zinc white has a property of scaling and cracking.

Edward Hopper

#13. Throughout the human experience people have read history because they felt that it was a pleasure and that it was in some way instructive. The profession of professor of history has taken it in a very different direction.

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#14. You have to liberate yourself first from the prejudices of the world in which you live.

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#15. I won't get run off from you. I love you, Sam. I said it before and I mean it. I won't let your mom control my life.

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#16. Last night I was struggling with a stomach ache, but [the trainer] gave me some medicine, an IV and I felt good out there today.

Taurean Green

#17. 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?

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#18. The drug ketamine, used as a 'dissociative' anesthetic, can produce subjective reports of conscious awareness outside the body, as can various other psychoactive drugs.

Stuart Hameroff

#19. Rock 'n' roll started to make so much money and generated so much income for the record companies that suddenly it was no longer evil.

John Landis

#20. Disruptive technologies typically enable new markets to emerge.

Clayton M Christensen

#21. In Our Underachieving Colleges, [Derek] Bok acts as both diagnostician and healer, wielding social-science statistics and professional studies to trace the etiology of today's illnesses and to recommend palliative treatments for what he has discovered.

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#22. War has been more common than peace, and extended periods of peace have been rare in a world divided into multiple states

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