"An historian should yield himself to his subject, become immersed in the place and period of his choice, standing apart from it now and then for a fresh view."

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Source : Samuel Eliot Morison (1964). “Vistas of history”, Knopf Books for Young Readers

Samuel Eliot Morison

#Views Quotes #Yield Quotes #History Quotes

“I don't think jogging is healthy, especially morning jogging. If morning joggers knew how tempting they looked to morning motorists, they would stay home and do sit-ups.”
“I soon learned that Everest wasn't a private affair. It belonged to many men.”
“I'd like to think that I don't have a stock character that I go to. I'm lucky in that when you get to initiate your own scene, you get to play whoever you want. That's really kind of cool, but all my characters are short. I look on the videotape, and I thought they were taller, but they're all 5'2".”
“Great thinkers often learn, to their surprise, that new ideas are less than welcome.”

Source : Gerd Gigerenzer (2002). “Adaptive Thinking: Rationality in the Real World”, p.46, Oxford University Press
“Americans tend not to distinguish between political rhetoric and real intentions, which can lead to great misunderstanding.”

Source : Source: www.truth-out.org
“Now I'd like someone to tell me there is no drama in real life!”
“There are more stakes [in Mary and Jane], which is always good.”
“The popular and scientific views of "race" no longer coincide. The word "race," as applied scientifically to human groupings, has lost any sharpness of meaning. To-day it is hardly definable in scientific terms, except as an abstract concept which may, under certain conditions, very different from those now prevalent, have been realized approximately in the past and might, under certain other but equally different conditions, be realized in the distant future.”

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