“Without history we are the prisoners of the accident of where and when we were born.”
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From the time I was a little boy I found myself reading history when I had a choice. I read a lot of things, but history had a special appeal for me.
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You have to liberate yourself first from the prejudices of the world in which you live.
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I can see that you are a true historian because you really always ought to ask that question about anybody at a different place or a different time: What's the same and what's different?
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