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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
| Keywords:
cite, cited, citing, fixation, historian, Historians, resides, sometime, trained
«It would presently be his task to take the bandage from this young woman's eyes, and bid her look forth on the world. But how many generations of the women who had gone to her making had descended bandaged to the family vault? He shivered a little, remembering some of the new ideas in his scientific books, and the much-cited instance of the Kentucky cave-fish, which had ceased to develop eyes because they had no use for them.»
«Nothing in the nature around us is evil. This needs to be repeated since one of the human ways of talking oneself into inhuman acts is to cite the supposed cruelty of nature.»
«The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Evil,
Religion
| Keywords:
cite, cited, citing, scripture