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The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.
G. M. Trevelyan / Historian
Inspirational
Jobs
Motivational
Passing
Teamwork
Buck
Excuses
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A little man often cast a long shadow.
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Men
Little Man
Long
Shadow
Little
Cast
Often
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I have two doctors, my left leg and my right.
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Motivational
Fitness
Health
Doctors
Left
Two
Leg
Right
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Village cricket spread fast through the land.
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Cricket
Land
Spread
Village
Fast
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After a day's walk everything has twice its usual value.
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Feet And Walking
Hiking
Usual
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One half who graduate from college never read another book.
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Funny
Graduation
Inspirational
Book
College
Half
One Half
Read
Graduate
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Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
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Action
Readiness
Responsibility
Springs
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We are the children of the earth and removed from her our spirit withers.
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Children
Earth
Spirit
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Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life blood of real civilization.
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Blood
Civilization
Curiosity
Disinterested
Intellectual
Intellectual Curiosity
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Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.
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Anger
Madness
Momentary
Passion
Control
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History repeats itself and History never repeats itself are about equally true.
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History Repeats Itself
Repeating History
Repeats
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Many who burnt heretics in the ordinary way of their business were otherwise excellent people.
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Ordinary
People
Way
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Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out
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Politics
Might
People
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Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out.
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Defined
Left
Negatively
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Before modern times there was Walking, but not the perfection of Walking, because there was no tea.
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Journey
Hiking
Perfection
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Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
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Education
Intelligence
Learning
Able
Population
Reading
Teaching
Worth Reading
Read
Distinguish
Vast
Produced
Unable
Worth
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We never know enough about the infinitely complex circumstances of any past event to prophesy the future by analogy.
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Analogies
Events
Past
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There is no orthodoxy in walking. It is a land of many paths and no-paths, where every one goes his own and is right.
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Journey
Hiking
Land
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Every true history must force us to remember that the past was once as real as the present and as uncertain as the future.
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History
Past
Real
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If the French noblesse had been capable of playing cricket with their peasants, their chateaux would never have been burnt.
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Capable
Cricket
Has Beens
Peasants
Burnt
French
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I never knew a man go for an honest day's walk for whatever distance, great or small, and not have his reward in the repossession of his soul.
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Men
Distance
Soul
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The best historian is he who combines knowledge of the evidence with the largest intellect, the warmest human sympathy and the highest imaginative powers.
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Evidence
Historian
Intellect
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Socrates gave no diplomas or degrees, and would have subjected any disciple who demanded one to a disconcerting catechism on the nature of true knowledge.
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Education
Degrees
Diploma
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Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing.
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Done
Ignorant
Impossible
Impossible Things
Possible And Impossible
Waiting
Young
Centuries
Tell
Young Person
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History is the open Bible: we historians are not priests to expound it infallibly: our function is to teach people to read it and to reflect upon it for themselves.
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History
People
Priests
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If one could make alive again for other people some cobwebbed skein of old dead intrigues and breathe breath and character into dead names and stiff portraits. That is history to me!
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Character
Names
People
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And how fascinating history is - the long, variegated pageant of man's still continuing evolution of this strange planet, so much the most interesting of all the myriads of spinners through space.
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Men
Space
Long
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"History repeats itself" and "History never repeats itself" are about equally true ... We never know enough about the infinitely complex circumstances of any past event to prophesy the future by analogy.
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Analogies
Events
Past
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We are literally children of the earth, and removed from her our spirits wither or run to various forms of insanity. Unless we can refresh ourselves at least by intermittent contact with nature, we grow awry.
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Running
Children
Insanity
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Village cricket spread fast through the land. In those days before it became scientific, cricket was the best game in the world to watch, with its rapid sequence of amusing incidents, each ball a potential crisis!
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Children
Fun
Summer
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I have two doctors, my left leg and my right. When body and mind are out of gear (and those twin parts of me live at such close quarters that the one always catches melancholy from the other) I know that I shall have only to call in my doctors and I shall be well again.
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Doctors
Mind
Two
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Since history has no properly scientific value, its only purpose is educative. And if historians neglect to educate the public, if they fail to interest it intelligently in the past, then all their historical learning is valueless except in so far as it educates themselves.
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History
Historical
Past
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The chorus-ending from Aristophanes, raised every night from every ditch that drains into the Mediterranean, hoarse and primeval as the raven's croak, is one of the grandest tunes to walk by. Or on a night in May, one can walk through the too rare Italian forests for an hour on end and never be out of hearing of the nightingale's song.
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Italian
Night
Song
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The poetry of history lies in the quasi-miraculous fact that once, on this earth, once, on this familiar spot of ground, walked other men and women, as actual as we are today, thinking their own thoughts, swayed by their own passions, but now all gone, one generation vanishing into another, gone as utterly as we ourselves shall shortly be gone, like ghosts at cockcrow.
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Truth
Lying
Passion
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What is easy to read has been difficult to write. The labour of writing and rewriting, correcting and recorrecting, is the due exacted by every good book from its author, even if he knows from the beginning exactly what he wants to say. A limpid style is invariably the result of hard labour, and the easily flowing connection of sentence with sentence and paragraph with paragraph has always been won by the sweat of the brow.
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Book
Sweat
Writing
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