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“You have to liberate yourself first from the prejudices of the world in which you live.”
 
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Donald Kagan
 
Name:   Donald Kagan
 
Nationality:   American
 
Date of Birth:   1932
 
Profession:   Historian
 
 
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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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Throughout the human experience people have read history because they felt that it was a pleasure and that it was in some way instructive. The profession of professor of history has taken it in a very different direction.
 
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All comparisons between America's current place in the world and anything legitimately called an empire in the past reveal ignorance and confusion about any reasonable meaning of the concept empire, especially the comparison with the Roman Empire.
 
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