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Riches should come as the reward for hard work, preferably one's forebears'.

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I believe that the supreme duty of the historian is to write history, that is to say, to attempt to record in one sweeping sequence the greater events and movements that have swayed the destinies of man.

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Unlike Christianity, which preached a peace that it never achieved, Islam unashamedly came with a sword.

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The Patriarch Joseph, after agreeing with the Latins that their formula of the Holy Ghost proceeding from the Son meant the same as the Greek formula of the Holy Ghost proceeding through the Son, fell ill and died. An unkind scholar remarked that after muddling his prepositions what else could he decently do?

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The people currently in charge have forgotten the first principle of an open society, namely that we may be wrong and that there has to be free discussion. That it's possible to be opposed to the policies without being unpatriotic.
George Soros

Steven Runciman

Steven Runciman

Born: July 7, 1903
Died: November 1, 2000 (aged 97)
Bio: Sir James Cochran Stevenson Runciman, known as Steven Runciman, was an English historian best known for his three-volume A History of the Crusades.
Known for:
  1. A History of the Crusades
  2. Fall of Constantinople, 1453- (1965)
  3. The Sicilian Vespers (1958)
  4. The Great Church in Captivity (1968)

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