I believe that historians and analysts of historical events need the authority of facts supplied by living witnesses to the events, which they make their subject.

  • -- Ibrahim Babangida 易卜拉欣·巴班吉达

我认为,历史学家和历史事件的分析者需要事件的现场目击者所提供的事实的权威性,他们把这些事件作为他们研究的主题。

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The whole philosophy of modern times is to dissolve distinctions between individuals and deal with them as large collections of people. It's essentially self-interested on the part of authority.

现代哲学的全部目的是消除个人之间的差别,并把它们当作一大批人来处理。从本质上说,这是对权威的利己主义。

Reviewers are usually people who would have been, poets, historians, biographer, if they could. They have tried their talents at one thing or another and have failed; therefore they turn critic.

评论家通常都是诗人,历史学家,传记作家,如果可能的话。他们在一件事或另一件事上试过他们的才能,但都失败了;因此他们变成了批评家。

I think that whether you're on the right or on the left as an economist or as a policy maker, every serious analyst I know agrees that at some point you have to deal with entitlements.

我认为,无论你是右派还是左派,无论是经济学家还是政策制定者,我所认识的每一位严肃的分析师都同意,在某个时候,你必须处理福利问题。

One is to ensure that the war fighters and the intelligence analysts get the information that they need when they need it, in a format that's useful to them.

一是确保作战人员和情报分析人员在需要的时候得到对他们有用的信息。

History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other.

历史重演。历史学家彼此重复。

New faces have more authority than accustomed ones.

新面孔比老面孔更有权威。