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If physicists could not quote in the text, they would not feel that much was lost with respect to advancement of knowledge of the natural world. If historians could not quote, they would deem it a disastrous impediment to the communication of knowledge about the past. A luxury for physicists, quotation is a necessity for historians, indispensable to historiography.

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I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again … the future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul.
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J. H. Hexter

J. H. Hexter

Born: May 25, 1910
Died: December 8, 1996 (aged 86)
Bio: Jack H. Hexter was an American historian, a specialist in Tudor and seventeenth century British history, and well known for his comments on historiography.
Known for:
  1. On historians (1979)
  2. The Judaeo-Christian tradition (1966)
  3. The Traditions of the Western World (1967)
  4. Reappraisals in history (1961)
  5. More's Utopia: The Biography of an Idea (1952)

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