J. B. Bury quotes
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“The ideal of progress, freedom of thought, and the decline of ecclesiastical power go together.”
-- J. B. BurySource : J. B. Bury (2014). “A History of Freedom of Thought (Illustrated)”, p.141, Lulu Press, Inc
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“A complete assemblage of the smallest facts of human history will tell in the end.”
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“The Macedonian people and their kings were of Greek stock, as their traditions and the scanty remains of their language combine to testify.”
-- J. B. BurySource : "A History of Greece to the Death of Alexander the Great" by J. B. Bury, 2nd edition, (p. 683), 1913.
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“I may remind you that history is not a branch of literature. The facts of history, like the facts of geology or astronomy, can supply material for literary art; for manifest reasons they lend themselves to artistic representation far more readily than those of the natural sciences; but to clothe the story of human society in a literary dress is no more the part of a historian as a historian, than it is the part of an astronomer as an astronomer to present in an artistic shape the story of the stars.”
-- J. B. Bury
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“History is not a catalogue but...a convincing version of events.”
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Source : A. L. Rowse (2016). “The Use of History”, p.45, Routledge
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“History does not eliminate grievances. It lays them down like landmines.”
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“Every age cuts and pastes history to suit its own purposes; art always has an ax to grind.”
Source : Ada Louise Huxtable (2010). “On Architecture: Collected Reflections on a Century of Change”, p.1, Bloomsbury Publishing USA
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“Every generation tailors history to its taste.”
Source : Ada Louise Huxtable (1986). “The Tall Building Artistically Reconsidered: The Search for a Skyscraper Style”, Pantheon
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