Quotes with historic

  • Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity.

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  • Jean Baudrillard We are becoming like cats, slyly parasitic, enjoying an indifferent domesticity. Nice and snug in the social, our historic passions have withdrawn into the glow of an artificial coziness, and our half-closed eyes now seek little other than the peaceful parade of television pictures.
    Jean Baudrillard
    French sociologist and philosopher. (1929 - 2007)
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  • Barack Obama After a century of striving, after a year of debate, after a historic vote, health care reform is no longer an unmet promise. It is the law of the land.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Bernard Lown Every historic period has had its Cassandras. Our era is the first in which prophecies of doom stem from objective scientific analyses.
    A Prescription for Hope
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  • Milan Kundera For a novelist, a given historic situation is an anthropologic laboratory in which he explores his basic question: What is human existence?
    Milan Kundera
    Tsjech writer and criticus (1929 - 2023)
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  • Abdallah II Historic changes and challenges. Breakthroughs in human knowledge and opportunity. And yet, for vast numbers across the globe, the daily realities have not altered.
    Abdallah II
    Jordan King (1962 - )
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  • Ben Shapiro If Republicans triumph in 2014, it will undoubtedly be as a result of Obamacare. In 2010, Republicans soared to historic victory because the much-maligned Tea Party spearheaded mass resistance to Obama's takeover of the healthcare industry.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Bob Ehrlich It's appropriate to celebrate public service, and the thoughtful people who choose to serve. They symbolize what is good and decent about this historic citizen legislature, and we thank them.
    Bob Ehrlich
    American lawyer and politician (1957 - )
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  • Leo Tolstoy Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity.
    Leo Tolstoy
    Russian writer (1828 - 1910)
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  • Ben Shapiro President Obama himself has attributed the legitimacy of the Jewish State not to its historic identity as Jewish territory, but to the Holocaust.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Buzz Aldrin Sending a couple of guys to the Moon and bringing them back safely? That's a stunt! That's not historic.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The first farmer was the first man. All historic nobility rests on the possession and use of land.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Buzz Aldrin The first footfalls on Mars will mark a historic milestone, an enterprise that requires human tenacity matched with technology to anchor ourselves on another world.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Leon Trotsky The historic ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forces - in nature, in society, in man himself.
    Leon Trotsky
    Russian revolutionary and writer (1879 - 1940)
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  • André Malraux To the humblest among them, who may be listening to me now, I want to say that the masterpiece to which you are paying historic homage this evening is a painting which he has saved.
    André Malraux
    French writer and politician (ps. by A. Berger) (1901 - 1976)
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