Edward Hallett Carr Quotes
What distinguishes the historian from the collector of historical facts is generalization.
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John McCain... looks like a fraud to me.
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Any cut to Pell Grants means low-income must take out additional loans or work longer hours - risk factors that increase their odds of dropping out of school.
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Every second he breathed, the smell of the grass, the cool air on his face, was so precious: To think that people had years and years, time to waste, so much time it dragged, and he was clinging to each second.
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Everything in this life is only a glimpse of the real thing. Love, beauty, pleasure, even pain in its true essence is only in the next.
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Shapewear is the canvas and the clothes are the art.
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The best ideas are common property.
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Truth does not judge.
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A golf swing is a collection of corrected mistakes.
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When I think about old Hollywood and the glamour of those days, women like Grace Kelly, Marilyn Monroe, and Audrey Hepburn were not dressing the way some girls dress today. There was a certain mystery about them, and I feel like that's gone in our industry.
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I was just racing day by day. With Niki [Lauda], every race was to be on the top. He programmed his life to be champion. I enjoyed life. That was the maximum for me.
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Beauty is that which excites the soul.
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I don't know if Jerry Lawler got here in a plane, or a time machine.
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You are no Satyagrahi if you remain silent or passive spectators while your enemy is being done to death.
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A few scattered accounts, collected and combined together, may lead us to two certain conclusions: 1. That all the American Indians are one kind of people; 2. That they are the same as the people in the northeast of Asia.
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What distinguishes the historian from the collector of historical facts is generalization.
