"Intellectual honesty is the quality that the public in free countries always has expected of historians; much more than that it does not expect, nor often get."

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Source : Samuel Eliot Morison (1953). “By Land and by Sea: Essays and Addresses”, New York : Knopf

Samuel Eliot Morison

#Country Quotes #Honesty Quotes #Intellectual Quotes

“If I put forth a legitimate effort, then I feel like, if that doesn't work out, that's all I can do.”
“It's hard to hear the story of a love affair between two straight men, one of whom is the most divine woman alive.”
“Just a few thousand Hezbollah fighters set two countries on fire all by themselves. Don't discount what bloody mayhem and hell a few thousand armed Druze, Christians, and Sunni can do if they decide to go hunting Shia in revenge for destroying their country.”
“I think that we are all much closer to our childhood selves than we often think, so when we read about childhood, it can surprise us how immediate or moving it is, when perhaps those feelings are just there, waiting to be accessed all the time.”
“In Nature nothing; is mean or contemptible, and it is only pride, originating in a false idea of our superiority, which causes our contempt for some of her productions. In the eyes of Nature, however, the oyster that vegetates at the bottom of the sea is as dear and perfect as the proud biped who devours it.”
“Latin men love Latin women, it is part of the culture, we celebrate women in a very special way and I think that is present in my work. I do it by making them beautiful, sensual.”
“If you have trouble hearing God speak, you are in trouble at the very heart of your Christian experience.”
“We have to start calling sexual harassment out because only then can we start to make progress on it.”

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