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Any child knows that history can only be a reduced representation of reality, but it must be a true one, not distorted by queer lenses.
~ Samuel E. Morison
Any
Child
Distorted
History
Knows
Lenses
Must
Only
Queer
Reality
Reduced
Representation
True
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Courses on historical methodology are not worth the time that they take up. I shall never give one myself, and I have observed that many of my colleagues who do give such courses refrain from exemplifying their methods by writing anything.
~ Samuel E. Morison
Anything
Colleagues
Courses
Give
Historical
Many
Methodology
Methods
Myself
Never
Observed
Refrain
Shall
Take
Time
Up
Who
Worth
Writing
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Every historian with professional standards speaks or writes what he believes to be true.
~ Samuel E. Morison
Be True
Believes
Every
He
Historian
Professional
Speaks
Standards
True
Writes
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Everyone agrees to that; but when we come to define truth, dissension starts.
~ Samuel E. Morison
Agree
Come
Define
Everyone
Starts
Truth
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Historical methodology, as I see it, is a product of common sense applied to circumstances.
~ Samuel E. Morison
Applied
Circumstances
Common
Historical
I See
Methodology
Product
See
Sense
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I have nothing revolutionary or even novel to offer.
~ Samuel E. Morison
Even
Nothing
Novel
Offer
Revolutionary
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If a lecturer, he wishes to be heard; if a writer, to be read. He always hopes for a public beyond that of the long-suffering wife.
~ Samuel E. Morison
Always
Beyond
He
Heard
Hopes
Lecturer
Public
Read
Wife
Wishes
Writer
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In any case, his judgment and set of values, acting alone or through his assistants, determine not only what is gold and what is dross but the design of the history which he creates out of the metal. The historian decides what is significant, and what is not.
~ Samuel E. Morison
Acting
Alone
Any
Assistants
Case
Creates
Decide
Design
Determine
Gold
He
His
Historian
History
Judgment
Metal
Only
Out
Set
Significant
Through
Values
Which
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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.
~ Samuel E. Morison
Always
Countries
Does
Expect
Expected
Free
Get
Historians
Honesty
Honesty Is
Intellectual
More
Much
Nor
Often
Public
Quality
Than
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Skepticism is an important historical tool. It is the starting point of all revision of hitherto accepted history.
~ Samuel E. Morison
Accepted
Historical
History
Hitherto
Important
Point
Revision
Skepticism
Starting
Starting Point
Tool
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So I have cultivated the vast garden of human experience which is history, without troubling myself overmuch about laws, essential first causes, or how it is all coming out.
~ Samuel E. Morison
About
Causes
Coming
Cultivated
Essential
Experience
First
Garden
History
How
Human
Human Experience
Laws
Myself
Out
Troubling
Vast
Which
Without
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The same contingencies of time and space that force a statesman or soldier to make decisions, impel the historian, though with less urgency, to make up his mind.
~ Samuel E. Morison
Decisions
Force
His
Historian
Less
Make
Make Up
Mind
Same
Soldier
Space
Statesman
Though
Time
Time And Space
Up
Urgency
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Throughout this evolution from left to right, Beard always detested war. Hence his writings were slanted to show that the military side of history was insignificant or a mere reflection of economic forces.
~ Samuel E. Morison
Always
Beard
Economic
Economic Forces
Evolution
Forces
Hence
His
History
Insignificant
Left
Mere
Military
Reflection
Right
Show
Side
Throughout
War
Were
Writings
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Too rigid specialization is almost as bad for a historian's mind, and for his ultimate reputation, as too early an indulgence in broad generalization and synthesis.
~ Samuel E. Morison
Almost
Bad
Broad
Early
Generalization
His
Historian
Indulgence
Mind
Reputation
Rigid
Specialization
Synthesis
Too
Ultimate
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With honesty of purpose, balance, a respect for tradition, courage, and, above all, a philosophy of life, any young person who embraces the historical profession will find it rich in rewards and durable in satisfaction.
~ Samuel E. Morison
Above
Any
Balance
Courage
Durable
Embraces
Find
Historical
Honesty
Life
Person
Philosophy
Profession
Purpose
Respect
Rewards
Rich
Satisfaction
Tradition
Who
Will
Young
Young Person
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Yet enthusiasm is no excuse for the historian going off balance. He should remind the reader that outcomes were neither inevitable nor foreordained, but subject to a thousand changes and chances.
~ Samuel E. Morison
Balance
Chances
Changes
Enthusiasm
Excuse
Going
He
Historian
Inevitable
Neither
No Excuse
Nor
Off
Outcomes
Reader
Remind
Should
Subject
Thousand
Were
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Samuel E. Morison
Profession
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BirthDate
09 July, 1887
DeathDate
15 May, 1976
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United States
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