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James Harvey Robinson
American
Historian
About the author
Our goal, simply stated, is to be the best.
James Harvey Robinson,
American
Historian
#Goal
We find it hard to believe that other people's thoughts are as silly as our own, but they probably are.
James Harvey Robinson,
American
Historian
#People
#Thoughts
#Silly
Partisanship is our great curse. We too readily assume that everything has two sides and that it is our duty to be on one or the other.
James Harvey Robinson,
American
Historian
#Duty
Curiosity is idle only to those who fail to realize that it may be a very rare and indispensable thing.
James Harvey Robinson,
American
Historian
#May
#Curiosity
We are incredibly heedless in the formation of our beliefs, but find ourselves filled with an illicit passion for them when anyone proposed to rob us of their companionship.
James Harvey Robinson,
American
Historian
#Passion
#Beliefs
#Companionship