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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People take the longest possible paths, digress to numerous dead ends, and make all kinds of mistakes. Then historians come along and write summaries of this messy, nonlinear process and make it appear like a simple, straight line.

人们走的路越远越好,走的路越走越远,走的路越走越远,走的路越走越远,走的路越走越远,犯的错误也越多。然后,历史学家们对这个混乱的非线性过程进行总结,使它看起来像一条简单的直线。

Nations without a past are contradictions in terms. What makes a nation is the past, what justifies one nation against others is the past, and historians are the people who produce it.

没有过去的国家在某些方面是矛盾的。造就一个国家的是过去,证明一个国家反对其他国家的正当性的是过去,历史学家是创造历史的人。

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。

Authority is something from which we are constantly subtracting, of which there remains always a residue, and which we attempt to make smaller and smaller.

权威是我们不断从它身上减去的东西,它总有残余,我们试图把它变得越来越小。

People are always casting me for what they call my 'authority.'

人们总是把我塑造成他们所说的“权威”。