Quotes with historical

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  • Bjornstjerne Bjornson There may be men who think they are attacking Christianity when they investigate the historical origin or the morality of some dogma; I do not think so. Honest investigation can result only in growth.
    Bjornstjerne Bjornson
    Norwegian writer (1832 - 1910)
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  • Buzz Aldrin There's a historical milestone in the fact that our Apollo 11 landing on the moon took place a mere 66 years after the Wright Brothers' first flight.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Arthur Golden This time all the historical details and things were right. But I'd written it again in third person, and people found it dry. I decided to throw that one away.
    Arthur Golden
    American writer (1956 - )
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  • C. L. R. James Today, in American imperialism, the commodity has reached its most grandiose historical manifestation.
    C. L. R. James
    Trinidadian historian, journalist and socialist (1901 - 1989)
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  • Noam Chomsky We can imagine a society in which no one could survive as a social being because it does not correspond to biologically determined perceptions and human social needs. For historical reasons, existing societies might have such properties, leading to various forms of pathology.
    Noam Chomsky
    American Linguist, Political Activist (1928 - )
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  • Angela Davis We have accumulated a wealth of historical experience which confirms our belief that the scales of American justice are out of balance.
    Angela Davis
    American political activist, philosopher, academic, and author (1944 - )
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  • Bertolt Brecht We need a type of theatre which not only releases the feelings, insights and impulses possible within the particular historical field of human relations in which the action takes place, but employs and encourages those thoughts and feelings which help transform the field itself.
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • Barbara Cartland We romantic writers are there to make people feel and not think. A historical romance is the only kind of book where chastity really counts.
    Barbara Cartland
    English author of romance novels (1901 - 2000)
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  • Thomas Carlyle What are your historical Facts; still more your biographical? Wilt thou know a man by stringing-together beadrolls of what thou namest Facts?
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Willem De Kooning Whatever an artist's personal feelings are, as soon as an artist fills a certain area on the canvas or circumscribes it, he becomes historical. He acts from or upon other artists.
    Willem De Kooning
    Dutch-American painter (1904 - 1997)
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  • Cary Fowler Whether we consciously realize it or not, the biodiversity with which we are most familiar, and the biodiversity with which we have most intimate historical, cultural and biological connections, is that associated with food plants.
    Cary Fowler
    American agriculturalist and businessman (1949 - )
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  • Barney Frank While I was pleasantly surprised by the relatively high number of jobs created in April, the fact is that job creation during this recovery period has significantly lagged both historical experience in recovery, and the projections of the Bush Administration.
    Barney Frank
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Albert Camus Whoever today speaks of human existence in terms of power, efficiency, and ''historical tasks'' is an actual or potential assassin.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Brendan Gleeson Winston was a bit of a challenge, all right, from a lot of different perspectives. It wasn't just the culture or the class divide or the historical baggage - it was also the age difference. We had to see if I could be aged-up legitimately, without it becoming some sort of hokey acting challenge.
    Brendan Gleeson
    Irish actor and film director (1955 - )
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  • Milan Kundera Without the meditative background that is criticism, works become isolated gestures, historical accidents, soon forgotten.
    Milan Kundera
    Tsjech writer and criticus (1929 - 2023)
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  • Barry Unsworth Writers of historical fiction are not under the same obligation as historians to find evidence for the statements they make. For us it is sufficient if what we say can't be disproved or shown to be false.
    Barry Unsworth
    English writer (1930 - 2012)
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