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Contention is inseparable from creating knowledge. It is not contention we should try to avoid, but discourses that attempt to suppress contention.

Joyce Appleby

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I object to being called a chess genius because I consider myself to be an all around genius who just happens to play chess, which is rather different. A piece of garbage like Kasparov might be called a chess genius, but he's like an idiot savant. Outside of chess he knows nothing.
Bobby Fischer

Joyce Appleby

Joyce Appleby

Born: April 9, 1929
Died: December 23, 2016 (aged 87)
Bio: Joyce Oldham Appleby was an American historian. She was a professor of history at the University of California, Los Angeles. She served as president of the Organization of American Historians and the American Historical Association.
Known for:
  1. The American Vision: Modern Times (2005)
  2. The American Journey: Early Years (2008)

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