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George F Kennan : The very concept of history implies the scholar and the reader. Without a generation of civilized people to study history, to preserve its records, to absorb its lessons and relate them to its own problems, history, too, would lose its meaning. # Books - Reading # Scholars and Scholarship # Writers and Writing

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Lawrence K Frank : " We are living the events which for centuries to come will be minutely studied by scholars who will undoubtedly describe these days as probably the most exciting and creative in the history of mankind. But preoccupied with our daily chores, our worries and personal hopes and ambitions, few of us are actually living in the present. " # Books - Reading # Scholars and Scholarship # Writers and Writing

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Albert Camus : " If, after all, men cannot always make history have meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one. " # Books - Reading # Scholars and Scholarship # Writers and Writing

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Daniel Goleman : " For the high achievers, studying gave them the pleasing, absorbing challenge o flow 40 percent of the hours they spent at it. But for low achievers, studying produced flow only 16 percent of the time; more often that not, it yielded anxiety, with the demands outreaching their abilities " # Books - Reading # Scholars and Scholarship # Writers and Writing

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Gilbert Keith Chesterton : " People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make. " # Books - Reading # Scholars and Scholarship # Writers and Writing

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Robert A Heinlein : " Does history record any case in which the majority was right? " # Books - Reading # Scholars and Scholarship # Writers and Writing

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Bernard Allen Weisberger : " While history is much more than a record of magnified personal encounters, it also remains rooted in individual personalities. " # Books - Reading # Scholars and Scholarship # Writers and Writing

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Robert Heinlein : " A generation which ignores history has no past and no future. " # Books - Reading # Scholars and Scholarship # Writers and Writing

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Gustave Flaubert : " Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times. " # Books - Reading # Scholars and Scholarship # Writers and Writing

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William J Durant : " One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say. " # Books - Reading # Scholars and Scholarship # Writers and Writing

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Alphonse De Lamartine : " Providence conceals itself in the details of human affairs, but becomes unveiled in the generalities of history. " # Books - Reading # Scholars and Scholarship # Writers and Writing

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George F Kennan: " A guest of one's time and not a member of its household." # Guests # Housework # Time and Time Management

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George F Kennan: " There are certain sad appreciations we have to come to about human nature on the basis of these recent wars. One of them is that suffering does not always make men better. Another is that people are not always more reasonable than governments; that public opinion, or what passes for public opinion, is not invariably a moderating force in the jungle of politics. It may be true, and I suspect it is, that the mass of people everywhere are normally peace-loving and would accept many restraints and sacrifices in preference to the monstrous calamities of war. But I also suspect that what purports to be public opinion in most countries that consider themselves to have popular government is often not really the consensus of the feelings of the mass of the people at all, but rather the expression of the interests of special highly vocal minorities — politicians, commentators, and publicity-seekers of all sorts: people who live by their ability to draw attention to themselves and die, like fish out of water, if they are compelled to remain silent. These people take refuge in the pat and chauvinistic slogans because they are incapable of understanding any others, because these slogans are safer from the standpoint of short-term gain, because the truth is sometimes a poor competitor in the market place of ideas — complicated, unsatisfying, full of dilemma, always vulnerable to misinterpretation and abuse. The counsels of impatience and hatred can always be supported by the crudest and cheapest symbols; for the counsels of moderation, the reasons are often intricate, rather than emotional, and difficult to explain. And so the chauvinists of all times and places go their appointed way: plucking the easy fruits, reaping the little triumphs of the day at the expense of someone else tomorrow, deluging in noise and filth anyone who gets in their way, dancing their reckless dance on the prospects for human progress, drawing the shadow of a great doubt over the validity of democratic institutions. And until people learn to spot the fanning of mass emotions and the sowing of bitterness, suspicion, and intolerance as crimes in themselves — as perhaps the greatest disservice that can be done to the cause of popular government — this sort of thing will continue to occur." # Politicians and Politics # Love # Critics and Criticism

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George F Kennan: " The best thing we can do if we want the Russians to let us be Americans is to let the Russians be Russian." # America # Nationalities and Nationalism # Funny

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George F Kennan: " The accords were fig leaves of democratic procedure to hide the nakedness of Stalinist dictatorship." # Patience # Dictators and Dictatorship # Politicians and Politics

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George F Kennan: " Here, for the first time, I felt an unshakable conviction that no momentary military advantage — even if such could have been calculated to exist — could have justified this stupendous, careless destruction of civilian life and of material values, built up laboriously by human hands over the course of centuries for purposes having nothing to do with war. Least of all could it have been justified by the screaming non sequitur: "They did it to us." And it suddenly appeared to me that in these ruins there was an unanswerable symbolism which we in the West could not afford to ignore. If the Western world was really going to make a pretense of a higher moral departure point — of greater sympathy and understanding for the human being as God made him, as expressed not only in himself but in the things he had wrought and cared about — then it had to learn to fight its wars morally as well as militarily, or not fight them at all; for moral principles were a part of its strength. Shorn of this strength, it was no longer itself; its victories were not real victories; and the best it would accomplish in the long run would be to pull down the temple over its own head. The military would stamp this as naïve; they would say that war is war, that when you're in it you fight with every means you have, or go down in defeat. But if that is the case, then there rests upon Western civilization, bitter as this may be, the obligation to be militarily stronger than its adversaries by a margin sufficient to enable it to dispense with those means which can stave off defeat only at the cost of undermining victory." # Children # Love # Life and Living

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George F Kennan: " The best an American can look forward to is the lonely pleasure of one who stands at long last on a chilly and inhospitable mountaintop where few have been before, where few can follow and where few will consent to believe he has been." # Past # Loneliness # Belief

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George F Kennan: " Not only the studying and writing of history but also the honoring of it both represent affirmations of a certain defiant faith-a desperate, unreasoning faith, if you will-but faith nevertheless in the endurance of this threatened world-faith in the total essentiality of historical continuity." # Argument # Faith # Writers and Writing

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George F Kennan: " The very concept of history implies the scholar and the reader. Without a generation of civilized people to study history, to preserve its records, to absorb its lessons and relate them to its own problems, history, too, would lose its meaning." # Books - Reading # Scholars and Scholarship # Writers and Writing

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George F Kennan: " If humiliation and rejection are to be the rewards of faithful and effective service in this field, what are those of us to conclude who have also served prominently in this line of work but upon whom this badge has not yet been conferred? We cannot deceive ourselves into believing that it was merit, rather than chance, that spared some of us the necessity of working in areas of activity that have now become controversial, of recording opinions people now find disagreeable, of aiding in the implementation of policies now under question. ... In no field of endeavor is it easier than in the field of foreign affairs to be honestly wrong; in no field is it harder for contemporaries to be certain they can distinguish between wisdom and folly; in no field would it be less practicable to try to insist on infallibility as a mark of fitness for office." # Leaders and Leadership # Faith # Love

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George F Kennan: " A political society does not live to conduct foreign policy; it would be more correct to say that it conducts foreign policy in order to live." # Politicians and Politics # Life and Living # Society

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