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• War has been more common than peace, and extended periods of peace have been rare in a world divided into multiple states

  Donald Kagan

  War, World, Common

  Donald Kagan (1996). “On the Origins of War and the Preservation of Peace”, Anchor

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• Without history we are the prisoners of the accident of where and when we were born.

  Donald Kagan

  Born, Prisoner, Accidents

  Interview with Bruce Cole, www.neh.gov. May/June 2005.

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• Todas las comparaciones entre el lugar actual de Estados Unidos en el mundo y cualquier cosa legítimamente llamada imperio en el pasado revelan ignorancia y confusión sobre cualquier significado razonable del concepto imperio, especialmente la comparación con el Imperio Romano.

  Donald Kagan

  Ignorance, Past, America

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• History had its own way of explaining things. The way historians explain things is by telling a story.

  Donald Kagan

  Historias, Manera, Explicar

  Interview with Bruce Cole, www.neh.gov. May/June 2005.

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• You have to liberate yourself first from the prejudices of the world in which you live.

  Donald Kagan

  Prejudice, World, Firsts

  Interview with Bruce Cole, www.neh.gov. May/June 2005.

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• Throughout the human experience people have read history because they felt that it was a pleasure and that it was in some way instructive. The profession of professor of history has taken it in a very different direction.

  Donald Kagan

  Taken, People, Different

  Interview with Bruce Cole, www.neh.gov. May/June 2005.

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• Puedo ver que usted [Bruce Cole] es un verdadero historiador porque realmente siempre debe hacer esa pregunta acerca de cualquier persona en un lugar diferente o en un momento diferente: ¿Qué es lo mismo y qué es diferente?

  Donald Kagan

  Different, Historian, Ought

  "On Learning from the Greeks". Interview with Bruce Cole, www.neh.gov. 2005.

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• In Our Underachieving Colleges, [Derek] Bok acts as both diagnostician and healer, wielding social-science statistics and professional studies to trace the etiology of today's illnesses and to recommend palliative treatments for what he has discovered.

  Donald Kagan

  College, Statistics, Today

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• We, to some degree, are like what we are because we inherited certain things from the Greeks and the Romans. One of them that's so striking is the whole area of politics.

  Donald Kagan

  Greek, Degrees, Certain

  Interview with Bruce Cole, www.neh.gov. May/June 2005.

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• From the time I was a little boy I found myself reading history when I had a choice. I read a lot of things, but history had a special appeal for me.

  Donald Kagan

  Reading, Boys, Choices

  Interview with Bruce Cole, www.neh.gov. May/June 2005.

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