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“Things have got to be wrong in order that they may be deplored.”

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Alfred Whitney Griswold was an influential American historian, born on October 27, 1906, and died on April 19, 1963. He made significant contributions to the field of American history, particularly in the study of the U.S. Constitution and early political history. more

“The gods have fled, I know. My sense is the gods have always been essentially absent. I do not believe human beings have played games or sports from the beginning merely to summon or to please or to appease the gods. If anthropologists and historians believe that, it is because they believe whatever they have been able to recover about what humankind told the gods humankind was doing. I believe we have played games, and watched games, to imitate the gods, to become godlike in our worship of eachother and, through those moments of transmutation, to know for an instant what the gods know.”

“Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.”

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Author:A. Bartlett Giamatti

“The professionals must set a good example.”

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Author:A. Bartlett Giamatti

“As I grew up, I knew that as a building it was on the level of Mount Olympus, the Pyramid of Giza, the nation's capital, the czar's winter palace, and the Louvre - except, of course, that it was better than all of those inconsequential places.”

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Author:A. Bartlett Giamatti

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