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Letter "W" » William H. McNeill Quotes
«The rise of Islam offers perhaps the most impressive example in world history of the power of words to alter human behavior in sudden, surprising ways.»
Author: William H. McNeill
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«We have an enormous fixation on, what seems to me to be, the na?ve idea that truth resides in what somebody wrote sometime in the past. If it's not written down, it isn't true. And that's absurd. But it's the way historians are trained: you have to have a source, and if you don't have something you can cite from an original source, in the original language, then you're not a really good historian, you're are not scientific, you're not true .»
Author: William H. McNeill
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cite, cited, citing, fixation, historian, Historians, resides, sometime, trained
«We have to do the best we can with the language and concepts we inherit and not worry about obtaining a truth that will satisfy everyone, everywhere, and for all time»
«My job is to bore you and let the hardness of your seat and the warmth of your robe prepare you for what is to come.»
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