I'm not an historian and I'm not wanting to write about how I perceive the social change over the century as a historian, but as somebody who's walked through it and whose life has been dictated by it too, as all our lives are.
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I am not trying to be a historian and a dramatist; I'm a dramatist, a dramatic historian, or one who does a dramatic interpretation of history.
quote by Oliver Stone
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The historian of science may be tempted to exclaim that when paradigms change, the world itself changes with them.
quote by Thomas Kuhn
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It is useful to the historian, among others, to be able to see the commonest forms of different phenomena, whether phonetic, morphological or other, and how language lives, carries on and changes over time.
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I believe that the supreme duty of the historian is to write history, that is to say, to attempt to record in one sweeping sequence the greater events and movements that have swayed the destiny of man.
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Napoleonic Fable
A fable that’s agreed upon
according to Napoleon
is what we should call history,
but ascribe its mystery
to recollections that are wrong
of brief events stretched into long,
in contrast to the brief report
that should, like our own lives, be short.
About this poem’s serious moral
A good historian would not quarrel:
Your history, if you are able
to write it up, is just a fable.
Napoleon once asked rhetorically: “What is history but a fable that is agreed upon? ”
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poem by Gershon Hepner
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Oh no, I'm not a historian or anything like that.
quote by Lee Hazlewood
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Historian: an unsuccessful novelist.
quote by H.L. Mencken
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I'm a historian in my own mind.
quote by Quentin Tarantino
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I'm a historian, and that freaks me out.
quote by Mike Tyson
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Every historian has informally an anthropology, without ever using the word.
The historian must have some conceptions of how men who are not historians behave.
quote by E.M. Forster
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The historian is a prophet in reverse.
quote by Friedrich von Schlegel
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Every historian discloses a new horizon.
quote by George Sand
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The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
I didn't realize the president was such an historian.
quote by Mark Shields
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I ain't no historian but I happen to savvy this incident.
quote by Charles M. Russell
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Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors.
quote by Antoine Rivarol
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Historian - a broad-gauge gossip.
quote by Ambrose Bierce
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If you think about it, the historian's task is like that of the detective.
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The first duty of an historian is to be on guard against his own sympathies.
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