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All Professionals, Whether Physicists, Economists Or Musicians, Live By And For Peer Judgment, Even When They Are Being Paid By People Who Cannot Tell The Difference.

Nations Without A Past Are Contradictions In Terms. What Makes A Nation Is The Past, What Justifies One Nation Against Others Is The Past, And Historians Are The People Who Produce It.

No Serious Historian Of Nations And Nationalism Can Be A Committed Political Nationalist... Nationalism Requires Too Much Belief In What Is Patently Not So.

(carmine Crocco) A Farm-labourer And Cowherd, Had Joined The Bourbon Army, Killed A Comrade In A Brawl, Deserted And Lived As An Outlaw For Ten Years. He Joined The Liberal Insurgents In 1860 In The Hope Of An Amnesty For His Past Offences, And Subsequently Became The Most Formidable Guerilla Chief And Leader Of Men On The Bourbon Side.

The Greatest Cruelties Of Our Century Have Been The Impersonal Cruelties Of Remote Decision, Of System And Routine, Especially When They Could Be Justified As Regrettable Operational Necessity.