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"We are seeing the passing of a generation of historians at UTC." James Russell
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Mack Brown

"For most of us who are historians, ... what a neat game." Mack Brown
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"Privatization came on slowly. When something very big happens, like privatization, historians and economists like to think you must have had very big causes. That is not how it happened." Kenneth Baker
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"I hope that not only my documentaries, but everybody's documentaries, last. It will really confuse historians in the next century, because they'll have, in addition to all the print material, they'll have all these pictures to look at." Frederick Wiseman
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Samuel Coleridge

"Reviewers are usually people who would have been, poets, historians, biographer, if they could. They have tried their talents at one thing or another and have failed; therefore they turn critic." Samuel Coleridge
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Margaret Thatcher

"The wisdom of hindsight, so useful to historians and indeed to authors of memoirs, is sadly denied to practicing politicians" Margaret Thatcher
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"We will leave that to historians." Lee Hamilton
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Mark Twain

"A historian who would convey the truth has got to lie. Often he must enlarge the truth by diameters, otherwise his reader would not be able to see it." Mark Twain
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"What historians will look at is her contributions in these other things. Historians will understand and explore the full dimensions and not just the perfectly made up, dignified widow." Mary Berry
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"Since the dramatic political changes following the demise of the Soviet Union, historians now have access to previously closed archives. This led to significant new insights into the planning and implementation of the genocide of the Jews." Norbert Kampe
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"Someday when historians record the decline of the American steel industry, President Bush will have the infamous distinction of contributing to the decimation of our industry and the loss of American jobs." Mark Glyptis
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Francis Collins

"What a profound responsibility it is to do this work. Historians will consider this a turning point." Francis Collins
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"He is totally unknown at present, except by historians. He is possibly the greatest unknown photographer." Lee Brumbaugh
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Harry S. Truman

"Study men, not historians." Harry S. Truman
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"Revisionist historians are about to get their hands on the Thatcher years, she's probably going to be looked at again because she feels far enough away now, and we don't see her much on the political landscape in this country, she's kind of disappeared and she doesn't speak out much anymore." Jonathan Coe
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Leo Tolstoy

"Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them." Leo Tolstoy
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George W. Bush

"Now, there are some who would like to rewrite history - revisionist historians is what I like to call them." George W. Bush
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"Most historians consider ladies teas to be the foundation of what would eventually become the suffrage rights legislation." Jan Knowles
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"Historians are to nationalism what poppy-growers in Pakistan are to heroin-addicts: we supply the essential raw material for the market." J. Hobsbawm
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"Historians tell the story of the past, novelists the story of the present." Edmond Goncourt
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"It is certain that the greatest poets, orators, statesmen and historians, men of the most brilliant and imposing talents, have labored as hard, if not harder, than day laborers; and that the most obvious reason why they have been superior to other me" Orison Marden
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