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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


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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


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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


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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


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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


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Making a movie requires 20 to 500 people to make and a lot of money and the stakes are a lot higher.


Alanis Morissette


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Every historian with professional standards speaks or writes what he believes to be true.


Samuel E. Morison


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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


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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


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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


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