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“My record is, far as I know, unimpeachable.”

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Mitch Daniels is a seasoned American politician who served as the Governor of Indiana. During his tenure, he promoted economic and educational reforms in the state, and is widely recognized for his contributions to education. more

“History in Burckhardt's words is 'the record of what one age finds worthy of note in another.' The past is intelligible to us only in light of the present; and we can fully understand the present only in light of the past. To enable man to understand the society of the past and to increase his mastery over the society of the present is the dual function of history.”

Men Light Age Past Records Function Increase Notes Worthy Mastery

Book:What is history?: the George Macaulay Trevelyan lectures delivered in the University of Cambridge January-March 1961

Source: What is history?: the George Macaulay Trevelyan lectures delivered in the University of Cambridge January-March 1961

“The historian is, by definition, absolutely incapable of observing the facts which he examines.”

Facts Definitions Historian Incapable Observing

Book:The Historian's Craft

Source: The Historian's Craft

“The good historian is like the giant of the fairy tale. He knows that wherever he catches the scent of human flesh, there his quarry lies.”

Knows Humans Lying History Flesh Tales Giants Fairy Historian Fairy Tale Scent Quarry

Book:The Historian's Craft

Source: The Historian's Craft

“It is striking how history, when resting on the memory of men, always touches the bounds of mythology.”

Men Memories History Bounds Mythology

Book:The ecclesiastical and political history of the popes of Rome during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries

Source: The ecclesiastical and political history of the popes of Rome during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries

“He who overcomes himself is divine. Most see their ruin before their eyes; but they go on into it.”

Eye Divine Goes On Overcoming Ruins

Author:Leopold von Ranke

“All ages are equidistant from eternity, and just as immediately accessible to God's presence.”

Age Eternity God's Presence

Author:Leopold von Ranke

“Calvin was virtually the founder of America.”

America Founders

Author:Leopold von Ranke

“No enterprise, small or large, public or private, can remain self-governing, let alone successful, so deeply in hock to others as we are about to be.”

Self Successful Enterprise Governing

Author:Mitch Daniels

“Art and relligion are not professions: they are not occupations for which men can be paid. The artist and the saint do what they have to do, not to make a living, but in obedience to some mysterious necessity. They do not product to live - they live to produce.”

Men Art Artist Produce Products Paid Saint Profession Mysterious Obedience Occupation

Author:Clive Bell

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