The historian's task is to make sense of the vast, chaotic r... - Lucien Febvre

"The historian's task is to make sense of the vast, chaotic record of human experience."

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Historian French 1878–1956

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"History is not the past. It is the present and the future too."

"To be a historian is to be a man committed to truth."

"The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there."

"Understanding the past requires imagination as much as scholarship."

"Hard work never killed anybody."

"Work with purpose and integrity."

"Hard work pays off in the end."

"A man's gotta do what a man's gotta do."