It may seem unfashionable to say so, but historians should seize the imagination as well as the intellect. History is, in a sense, a story, a narrative of adventure and of vision, of character and of incident. It is also a portrait of the great general drama of the human spirit.
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PETER MCWILLIAMS To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all. PETER MCWILLIAMS The better a man is the more mistakes he will make for the more things he will try. PETER DRUCKER Prayer puts you in touch with the infinite and prepares your mind for the finite. PETER DANIEL Parents are the bones on which children sharpen their teeth. PETER USTINOV The road to positivity is strewn with the abandoned vehicles of the faint-hearted. PETER MCWILLIAMS The point of living, and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to... PETER USTINOV The camera is a killing chamber, which speeds up the time it claims to be conserving. Like coffins e... PETER CONRAD Peace is no more than a dream as long as we need the comfort of the clan. PETER NICOLS Integrity is not a 90 percent thing, not a 95 percent thing; either you have it or you don't. PETER SCOTESE There used to be a real me, but I had it surgically removed. PETER SELLER The stupidity of a stupid man is mercifully intimate and reticient, while the stupidity of an intell... PETER USTINOV Ignorance is no excuse, it's the real thing. IRENE PETER All humans are hypocrites; the biggest hypocrite of all is the one who claims to detest hypocrisy. PETER WASTHOLM Leadership is not magnetic personality--that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not making fri... PETER DRUCKER Laughter would be bereaved if snobbery died. PETER USTINOV I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me to be the most c... PETER USTINOV A different world cannot be built by indifferent people. PETER MARSHALL Motivation is like food for the brain. You cannot get enough in one sitting. It needs continual and ... PETER DAVIES We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it. PETER DRUCKER Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable. PETER DRUCKER Give to us clear vision that we may know where to stand and what to stand for -- because unless we s... PETER MARSHALL We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the mos... PETER DRUCKER Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation. PETER DRUCKER The computer is a moron. PETER DRUCKER As much as we like to think that we are independent-minded, free-willed, autonomous individuals, the... PETER MCWILLIAMS The really important things are said over cocktails and are never done. PETER DRUCKER Nothing ventured, nothing gained -- but if everything is ventured, and still nothing gained, give up... PETER WASTHOLM Common Sense is in medicine the master workman. PETER LATHAM All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it -- an oblique, indirect sample of what it cont... PETER CONRAD If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same. PETER GILCREST First, all relationships are with yourself-and sometimes they involve other people. Second, the most... PETER MCWILLIAMS