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I saw more stupid people in graduate school and three decades in academia than I ever did who ran 100 acres without going broke.

Victor Davis Hanson

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Victor Davis Hanson
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: September 5
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In history, one gathers clues like a detective, tries to present an honest account of what most likely happened, and writes a narrative according to what we know and, where we aren't absolutely sure, what might be most likely to have happened, within the generally accepted rules of evidence and sources.
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Can-do Americans courageously go about their duty in Iraq - mostly unafraid that a culture of 2,000 years, the reality of geography, the sheer forces of language and religion, the propaganda of state-run Arab media and the cynicism of the liberal West are all stacked against them.
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I think people are beating each other up in the halls of Congress, as they did in the late 1850s.
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States are like people. They do not question the awful status quo until some dramatic event overturns the conventional and lax way of thinking.
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