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“Most armies are in fact run by their sergeants - the officers are there just to give things a bit of tone and prevent warfare becoming a mere lower-class brawl.”

Giving Facts Running Bits Class History Humour Becoming Army Mere Tone Officers Warfare Lower Class Sergeants

Book:The Carpet People

Source: The Carpet People

“The only real distinction at this dangerous moment in human history and cosmic development has nothing to do with medals and ribbons. Not to fall asleep is distinguished. Everything else is mere popcorn.”

Humans Art Real Philosophy Moments Fall History Dangerous Development Mere Distinction Cosmic Medal Human History Distinguished Ribbons Popcorn

Author:Saul Bellow

“Racial discrimination in elections in Texas is no mere historical artifact. To the contrary, Texas has been found in violation of the Voting Rights Act in every redistricting cycle from and after 1970.”

“When the temperamental and unconventional people are not mere plagiarists of dead eccentrics, they lack, in almost every case, thehistoric sense.”

People History Cases Mere Rebellion Unconventional

Book:Modes and Morals

Source: Modes and Morals

“Facts are the mere dross of history. It is from the abstract truth which interpenetrates them, and lies latent among them, like gold in the ore, that the mass derives its whole value; and the precious particles are generally combined with the baser in such a manner that the separation is a task of the utmost difficulty.”

Whole Facts Lying Values History Mass Tasks Gold Difficulty Mere Separation Abstract Particles Latent Dross

Author:Thomas B. Macaulay

“Throughout human history, the apostles of purity, those who have claimed to possess a total explanation, have wrought havoc among mere mixed-up human beings.”

Humans Human Beings History Mere Explanation Purity Human History Fanaticism Apostles Havoc

Book:In good faith

Source: In good faith

“A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect.”

Ifs May Law Literature History Historical Mere Lawyer Architect Venture Mechanic Masons Funny Lawyer

Author:Walter Scott

“The revealed and mystic literature of mankind bears ample testimony to the fact that religious experience has been too enduring and dominant in the history of mankind to be rejected as mere illusion. There seems to be no reason, then, to accept the normal level of human experience as fact and reject its other levels as mystical and emotional.”

Source: The religious thought in Islam

“Tradition usually rests upon something which men did know; history is often the manufacture of the mere liar.”

Knows Men History Tradition Mere Liars

Book:Scotland & the Scottish People: An Address Delivered in the City of Memphis, Tennessee, on St. Andrew's-Day, 1875

Source: Scotland & the Scottish People: An Address Delivered in the City of Memphis, Tennessee, on St. Andrew's-Day, 1875

“History without politics descends to mere Literature.”

Literature History Mere

Author:John Robert Seeley

“Politics are vulgar when they are not liberalised by history, and history fades into mere literature when it loses sight of its relation to practical politics.”

Literature Loses History Sight Relation Mere Practicals Fades Vulgar

Book:The Expansion of England: Two Courses of Lectures

Source: The Expansion of England: Two Courses of Lectures

“To the scientist, nature is always and merely a 'phenomenon,' not in the sense of being defective in reality, but in the sense of being a spectacle presented to his intelligent observation; whereas the events of history are never mere phenomena, never mere spectacles for contemplation, but things which the historian looks, not at, but through, to discern the thought within them.”

Looks Reality Science Nature Natural History Events Scientist Intelligent Mere Observation Contemplation Phenomenon Historian Defective Spectacles

Author:Robin G. Collingwood

“Hitler was no inexorable product of a German 'special path', no logical culmination of long-term trends in specifically German culture and ideology. Nor was he a mere 'accident' in the course of German history.”

Long Culture Courses Term History Path Special Products Mere Accidents Ideology Long Term Logical Trends Nazism Nazi Germany Inexorable Culmination German History

Book:Hitler, 1889-1936: Hubris

Source: Hitler, 1889-1936: Hubris