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Quotes from The Pursuit of Truth: A Historian's Memoir — William H. McNeill

1917–2016 Canada

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Communication always involves slippage, and intellectual discourse is particularly liable to being twisted since a recipient can only accommodate novelty by fitting it into a preexisting structure of ideas.

The Pursuit of Truth: A Historian's Memoir (2005)

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