John Lewis Gaddis famous quotes

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Revisionism is a healthy historiographical process, and no one, not even revisionists, should be exempt from it.
-- John Lewis Gaddis

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It is worth starting with visions, though, because they establish hopes and fears. History then determines which prevail.
-- John Lewis Gaddis

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I expressed skepticism, in the first chapter, about the utility of time machines in historical research. I especially advised against graduate students relying on them, because of the limited perspective you tend to get from being plunked down in some particular part of the past, and the danger of not getting back in time for your orals.
-- John Lewis Gaddis

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Stalinâ€™s postwar goals were security for himself, his regime, his country, and his ideology, in precisely that order.
-- John Lewis Gaddis

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Stalin’s postwar goals were security for himself, his regime, his country, and his ideology, in precisely that order.
-- John Lewis Gaddis

#Country #Order #Goal
George Kennan and Paul Nitze were the Adams and Jefferson of the Cold War. They were there for the beginning, they witnessed its course over almost half a century, and they argued with each other constantly while it was going on. But they maintained throughout a remarkable friendship, demonstrating-as few others in our time have-that it is possible to differ with civility. Nicholas Thompson's is a fine account of that relationship, carefully researched, beautifully written, and evocatively suggestive of how much we have lost because such civility has become so rare.
-- John Lewis Gaddis

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History is the great propagator of doubt.
Every age cuts and pastes history to suit its own purposes; art always has an ax to grind.
There is a healthy American newspaper tradition of not taking yourself seriously It is the story you must take that way... And if you do take yourself seriously, according to this sound convention, you are supposed to do your best not to let anyone else know about it. (Like bed-wetting.)
I think that's created a healthy environment. The comparisons to "ER" were maddening and there was this assumption that the two of us were looking at each other with rage and resentment, which was also not the case.
We want to keep the company healthy and its employees happy, and we want to keep them on the job and productive.
I hoped there would be a better process. But it is final -- I will not participate .
The primary reason for a tariff is that it enables the exploitation of the domestic consumer by a process indistinguishable from sheer robbery.
Diligent as one must be in learning, one must be as diligent in forgetting; otherwise the process is one of pedantry, not culture.
Give it up for the process that leads to childbirth!
This is really a pretty good system you have here. What do you call it? "Due process". We're very proud of it.

John Lewis Gaddis famous quotes

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