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All comparisons between America's current place in the world and anything legitimately called an empire in the past reveal ignorance and confusion about any reasonable meaning of the concept empire, especially the comparison with the Roman Empire.

~Donald Kagan

Topics: About America Any Anything Between Comparison Comparisons Concept Confusion Current Empire Ignorance In The Past Meaning Meaning Of Past Place Reasonable Reveal Roman Roman Empire World

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

~Donald Kagan

Topics: First Liberate Live Prejudices Which World You Yourself

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

~Donald Kagan

Topics: Explain Explaining Had Historians History Own Story Telling Things Way

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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

Topics: Appeal Boy Choice Found Had History Little Lot Me Myself Read Reading Special Things Time

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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

Topics: Because Different Direction Experience Felt History Human Human Experience People Pleasure Profession Professor Read Some Taken Throughout Very Way

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I can see that you are a true historian because you really always ought to ask that question about anybody at a different place or a different time: What's the same and what's different?

~Donald Kagan

Topics: About Always Anybody Ask Because Different Different Place Historian Ought Place Question Really Same See Time True You I Can

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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

Topics: Area Because Certain Certain Things Degree Greeks Inherited Like Politics Romans Some Striking Them Things Whole

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

~Donald Kagan

Topics: Accident Born History Prisoners Were Where Without

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Historian

Born: Unknown

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