David Cannadine Quotes
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The older I get the more I'm convinced that it's the purpose of politicians and journalists to say the world is very simple, whereas it's the purpose of historians to say, 'No! It's very complicated.'
The job of the historian is to help give people a sense of existence in time, without which we are really not fully human. -
David Cannadine
- Born: September 7, 1950
- Occupation: Historian
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