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Historical methodology, as I see it, is a product of common sense applied to circumstances.


Samuel E. Morison

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SAMUEL E. MORISON Everyone agrees to that; but when we come to define truth, dissension starts.
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E E CUMMINGS To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybod...
E E CUMMINGS The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
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E E CUMMINGS Listen; there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go.
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E E CUMMINGS It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
E E CUMMINGS I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
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E E CUMMINGS I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
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E. E. CUMMINGS Progress is a comfortable disease.
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H. E. E. HAYES I never liked you, and I always will.
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SAMUEL PEPYS Music and woman I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is.
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SAMUEL PEPYS Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.
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SAMUEL MORSE What God hath wrought?
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SAMUEL LOVER Oh, happy triumph of the poet! - to hear his verses wedded to sweet sounds, and warbled by the woman...
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SAMUEL LOVER Said will be a little ahead, but done should follow at his heel.
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SAMUEL LOVER Come live in my heart, and pay no rent.
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SAMUEL LARSEN I think anyone taken out of their comfort zone and put somewhere else will change.
SAMUEL LARSEN I have nothing holding me back in my head at all.
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SAMUEL LARSEN Three of my tattoos can be considered spiritual or faithful.
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SAMUEL LARSEN He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own...
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SAMUEL JOHNSON Love is only one of many passions.
SAMUEL JOHNSON My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.
SAMUEL JOHNSON The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Despotism is the only form of government which may with safety to itself, neglect the education of i...
SAMUEL HORSLEY Wonder, connected with a principle of rational curiosity, is the source of all knowledge and discove...
SAMUEL HORSLEY In a word, if any kind of slavery can be vindicated by the Holy Scriptures, we are already sure our ...
SAMUEL HOPKINS God saw fit, for wise reasons to allow the people of Israel thus to make and possess slaves; but is ...
SAMUEL HOPKINS If it be not a sin, an open, flagrant violation of all the rules of justice and humanity, to hold th...
SAMUEL HOPKINS Willingness to be damned for the glory of God.
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SAMUEL HOPKINS Furthermore, the slaves cannot be put into a more wretched situation, ourselves being judges, and th...
SAMUEL HOPKINS However, I am willing to hear what you can produce from Scripture in favor of any kind of slavery.
SAMUEL HOPKINS My soul is dark with stormy riot: directly traced over to diet.
SAMUEL HOFFENSTEIN When you're away, I'm restless, lonely, Wretched, bored, dejected; only here's the rub, ...
SAMUEL HOFFENSTEIN There is not a right too long denied to which we do not aspire in order to achieve; there is not a w...
SAMUEL GOMPERS It is impossible for capitalists and laborers to have common interests.
SAMUEL GOMPERS Labor Day is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race or nation.
SAMUEL GOMPERS We do want more, and when it becomes more, we shall still want more. And we shall never cease to dem...
SAMUEL GOMPERS The man who has his millions will want everything he can lay his hands on and then raise his voice a...
SAMUEL GOMPERS The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit.
SAMUEL GOMPERS Show me the country that has no strikes and I'll show you the country in which there is no liber...
SAMUEL GOMPERS Where trade unions are most firmly organized, there are the rights of the people most respected.
SAMUEL GOMPERS Time is the most valuable thing on earth: time to think, time to act, time to extend our fraternal r...
SAMUEL GOMPERS Movement should be a counter, whether in action scenes or dialogue or whatever. It counters where yo...
SAMUEL FULLER You know how you smoke out a sniper? You send a guy out in the open, and you see if he gets shot. Th...
SAMUEL FULLER Being a hooker does not mean being evil. The same with a pick-pocket, or even a thief. You do what y...
SAMUEL FULLER When you're at the end of your rope, all you have to do is make one foot move out in front of th...
SAMUEL FULLER We have too many intellectuals who are afraid to use the pistol of common sense.
SAMUEL FULLER Surviving is the only glory in war.
SAMUEL FULLER When house and land are gone and spent, then learning is most excellent.
SAMUEL FOOTE Born in a cellar... and living in a garret.
SAMUEL FOOTE He is not only dull in himself, but the cause of dullness in others.
SAMUEL FOOTE Death and the dice level all distinctions.
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SAMUEL DASH I was a very serious young man, very committed to saving the world.
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SAMUEL DASH I've always been driven by the concept of equal justice under the law, but only the rich can pay...
SAMUEL DASH Watergate was unique because it allowed the public to play its democratic role in expressing its out...
SAMUEL DASH I'm very much in support of the free press, but the free press ought to be educational and infor...
SAMUEL DASH When you believe in what you're doing and use your imagination and initiative, you can make a di...
SAMUEL DASH We come to know best what men are, in their worse jeopardizes.
SAMUEL DANIEL The wise are above books.
SAMUEL DANIEL And for the few that only lend their ear, That few is all the world.
SAMUEL DANIEL Striving to tell his woes, words would not come; For light cares speak, when mighty griefs are dumb.
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SAMUEL CHASE Summon me, then; I will be the posse comitatus; I will take them to jail.
SAMUEL CHASE By our form of government, the Christian religion is the established religion; and all sects and den...
SAMUEL CHASE People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio b...
SAMUEL BUTLER Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it, shall perish by it.
SAMUEL BUTLER To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
SAMUEL BUTLER If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success.
SAMUEL BUTLER The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.
SAMUEL BUTLER Self-preservation is the first law of nature.
SAMUEL BUTLER A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
SAMUEL BUTLER Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
SAMUEL BUTLER Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
SAMUEL BUTLER