"What distinguishes the historian from the collector of historical facts is generalization."

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Source : Edward Hallett Carr (1962). “What Is History?: The George Macaulay Trevelyan Lectures Delivered in the University of Cambridge January-March 1961”

Edward Hallett Carr

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“A brave man scorns to quarrel once a day; Like Hectors in at every petty fray.”
“You know, my movies are important on an economic basis, on an artistic basis.”
“I don't know if anyone's ever told you this", he begins. He doesn't blush, and his eyes don't dart away. Instead I find myself starring into a pair of oceans - one perfect, the other blemished by that tiny ripple. "You're very attractive." I've been complimented on my appearance before. But never in his tone of voice. Of all the things he's said, I don't know why this catches me off guard. But it startles me so much that without thinking I blurt out, "I could say the same about you." I pause. "In case you didn't know." A slow grin spreads across his face. "Oh, trust me. I know.”
“I don't play video games.”
“The more we retreat from the culture at large the more room we will have to carve out lives of meaning, the more we will be able to wall off the flood of illusions disseminated by mass culture and the more we will retain sanity in an insane world.”
“I think that we need to be careful, as reporters and as journalists, not to take the bait and not to get into an endless discussion about issues that are trivial.”

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“Face your problems head on. Do what you have to do to take care of it. Develop a good work ethic.”

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“For our first date, I made Ryan Hamburger Helper, which is basically what I grew up on. I make my own version of it now, with macaroni and cheese and hamburger meat. And the kids - it's their favorite dinner.”

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