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To every object there correspond an ideally closed system of truths that are true of it and, on the other hand, an ideal system of possible cognitive processes by virtue of which the object and the truths about it would be given to any cognitive subject.

~Edmund Husserl

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The violence in the world comes about because we human beings are forever creating barriers between men who are like us and men who are not like us.

~Edmund Leach

Topics: About Barriers Because Beings Between Creating Forever Human Human Beings Like Men Us Violence Who World

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Between 1776 and 1789, Americans replaced a government over them with a government under them. They have worried ever since about keeping it under. Distrust of its powers has been more common and more visible than distrust of the imperial authority of England ever was before the Revolution.

~Edmund Morgan

Topics: About American Authority Been Before Between Common Distrust England Ever Government Imperial Keeping More Over Powers Replaced Revolution Since Than Them Visible Worried

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It is hard for anyone who discovers George Washington not to write about him, perhaps because he is so hard to discover and such a surprise when you do.

~Edmund Morgan

Topics: About Anyone Because Discover Discovers George George Washington Hard He Him Perhaps Surprise Washington Who Write You

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There is something about guns that inhibits understanding. It is not just that they can put an end to argument. They somehow generate beliefs that are obviously contrary to observable fact.

~Edmund Morgan

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In America, we may acknowledge Washington and Lincoln as great men, and probably Franklin and Jefferson and maybe Franklin Delano Roosevelt and possibly even several more, but we would probably disagree about precisely what it was that made them great, what it was that enabled them to give a lasting direction to the course of events.

~Edmund Morgan

Topics: About Acknowledge America Course Direction Disagree Even Events Franklin Give Great Great Men Jefferson Lasting Lincoln Made May Maybe Men More Possibly Precisely Roosevelt Several Them Washington Would

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Most historians don't much like generalizations. Indeed, they make a trade of showing that this or that generalization about the past will not work here or there or then.

~Edmund Morgan

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History, at its best, always tells us as much indirectly about ourselves as it does directly about our predecessors, and it is often most revealing when it deals with episodes and phenomena that we find repulsive.

~Edmund Morgan

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As a grandson of farmers in downstate Illinois, I have long admired the dedication of farmers to their work and have written about the role of agriculture in American innovation.

~Edmund Phelps

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I started to think about what drives innovation and what its social significance might be. The next step was to think innovators are taking a leap into the unknown. That led me to the thought that it is also a source of fun and employee engagement.

~Edmund Phelps

Topics: About Also Drives Employee Engagement Fun Innovation Innovators Leap Led Me Might Next Next Step Significance Social Source Started Step Taking Think Thought Unknown

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