Thomas A. Bailey quotes
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“Start a program for gifted children, and every parent demands that his child be enrolled.”
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“Too many historical writers are the votaries of cults, which, by definition are dedicated to whitewashing warts and hanging halos.”
-- Thomas A. BaileySource : Thomas A. Bailey (1969). “Essays Diplomatic and Undiplomatic of Thomas A. Bailey”, p.15, Ardent Media
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“Too many so-called historians are really 'hysterians'; their thinking is more visceral than cerebral. When their duties as citizens clash with their responsibilities as scholars, Clio frequently takes a back seat.”
-- Thomas A. BaileySource : Thomas A. Bailey (1969). “Essays Diplomatic and Undiplomatic of Thomas A. Bailey”, p.10, Ardent Media
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“The two-thirds rule [of the Senate], which can be changed only by constitutional amendment, will no doubt continue for a long time to come. Like monogamy, it is not completely satisfactory, but, like monogamy, it has won general if somewhat grudging acquiescence.”
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“The two-thirds rule of the Senate, which can be changed only by constitutional amendment, will no doubt continue for a long time to come. Like monogamy, it is not completely satisfactory, but, like monogamy, it has won general if somewhat grudging acquiescence.”
-- Thomas A. BaileySource : "A Diplomatic History of the American People". Book by Thomas A. Bailey, 7th ed., p. 17, 1940.
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Source : A. A. Gill (2008). “Paper view: the best of the Sunday Times television reviews”, Orion Pub Co
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“Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose, But young men think it is, and we were young.”
Source : More Poems (1936) no. 36
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“Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.”
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Source : A. E. Housman (2012). “A Shropshire Lad”, p.43, Courier Corporation
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