“ The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings. ”
- John F. Kennedy- Copy
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“ Toryism has the historical context of hierarchy and elitism and is a different kind of political philosophy. It's not my favourite term, but we're probably stuck with it. ”
- Stephen Harper- Copy
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“ We modern Marxists regard socialism as a historically brief transitional stage between feudalism and capitalism, necessary only in backward countries. ”
- John McCarthy- Copy
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“ I've spent my whole life working in a medium that was regarded with contempt largely because of historical reasons. ”
- Will Eisner- Copy
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“ Humor has historically been tied to the mores of the day. The Yellow Kid was predicated on what people thought was funny about the immigrant Irish. When you're different in a society, you're funny. ”
- Will Eisner- Copy
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“ Historical judgement is not a variety of knowledge, it is knowledge itself; it is the form which completely fill and exhausts the field of knowing, leaving no room for anything else. ”
- Benedetto Croce- Copy
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“ All truly historical peoples have an idea they must realize, and when they have sufficiently exploited it at home, they export it, in a certain way, by war; they make it tour the world. ”
- Victor Cousin- Copy
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“ It seems, though, that historically we have now reached a position in which Jews cannot legitimately be understood always and only as presumptive victims. ”
- Judith Butler- Copy
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“ The Sixties are now considered a historical period, just like the Roman Empire. ”
- Dave Barry- Copy
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“ I don't know what they are going to be, but they are going to be historic. ”
- Jerry Lewis- Copy
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“ Speak softly and carry a big stick, and you will go far. ”
- Theodore Roosevelt- Copy
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“ The cardinal responsibility of leadership is to identify the dominant contradiction at each point of the historical process and to work out a central line to resolve it. ”
- Mao Tse Tung- Copy
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“ Pictures can and do make a difference. Strong images of historical events do have an impact on society. They can help with change. ”
- Charles Moore- Copy
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“ The number of elements that have to go into a hit would break a computer down. the right season for that play, the right historical moment, the right tonality. ”
- Arthur Miller- Copy
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“ It is a great pity that every human being does not, at an early stage of his life, have to write a historical work. He would then realize that the human race is in quite a jam about truth. ”
- Rebecca West- Copy
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“ It is absolutely impossible to transcend the laws of nature. What can change in historically different circumstances is only the form in which these laws expose themselves. ”
- Karl Marx- Copy
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“ If only the true and useful things were recorded, our huge historical libraries would be reduced to very narrow dimensions — but we would know more, and know it better. ”
- Francois Marie Arouet de Voltaire- Copy
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“ Great abilities are not requisite for an Historian; for in historical composition, all the greatest powers of the human mind are quiescent. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
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“ Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men. ”
- Gilbert K. Chesterton- Copy
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“ A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show the quality of the people as no historical reconstruction can. ”
- Edith Hamilton- Copy
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“ A fixed image of the future is in the worst sense a historical. ”
- Juliet Mitchell- Copy
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“ A novel is not, after all, a historical document, but a way to travel through the human heart. ”
- Julia Alvarez- Copy
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“ Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled. ”
- Michael Crichton- Copy
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“ We're not talking about historical accuracy, we're talking about art. I've set in motion a geometric inevitability. If I start chiseling there, chipping here, the whole form is compromised. ”
- David Assael- Copy
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“ Vietnam is a jungle. You had jungle warfare. Kuwait, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, you have sand. from a historical basis, Middle East conflicts do not last a long time. ”
- Dan Quayle- Copy
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