Famous William Mcneill Quotations

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"We have an enormous fixation on, what seems to me to be, the na�¯ve idea that truth resides in what somebody wrote sometime in the past. If it's not written down, it isn't true. And that's absurd. But it's the way historians are trained: you have to have a source, and if you don't have something you can cite from an original source, in the original language, then you're not a really good historian, you're are not scientific, you're not true ."
by William McNeill
"My job is to bore you and let the hardness of your seat and the warmth of your robe prepare you for what is to come."
by William H. McNeill


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