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  • As the archeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end.
  • Our memory is like a shop in the window of which is exposed now one, now another photograph of the same person. And as a rule the most recent exhibit remains for some time the only one to be seen.

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  • Henry David Thoreau This American government - what is it but a tradition, though a recent one, endeavoring to transmit itself unimpaired to posterity, but each instant losing some of its integrity? It has not the vitality and force of a single living man; for a single man can bend it to his will.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Joseph Addison A cloudy day or a little sunshine have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most recent blessings or misfortunes.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Carl Bernstein All institutions have lapses, even great ones, especially by individual rogue employees - famously in recent years at 'The Washington Post,' 'The New York Times,' and the three original TV networks.
    Carl Bernstein
    American investigative journalist and author (1944 - )
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  • Bob Ney Along with you, I have witnessed the unfortunate rise in gasoline prices that has accompanied the summer driving season and the more recent spike in prices due to Hurricane Katrina.
    Bob Ney
    American politician (1954 - )
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  • Ben Stein Americans are terrified because so many of them have been laid off in recent years and months and they fear that they may be next. Even if they have not been laid off or have not known anyone laid off, they definitely know someone who has lost his home.
    Ben Stein
    American professor, writer
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  • Barry Ritholtz Any time you speak to people about their posture, you learn about their most recent investment activity. When someone just bought stocks, they tend to be bullish; someone who just sold is bearish.
    Barry Ritholtz
    American author and newspaper columnist
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  • Michel Foucault As the archeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end.
    Michel Foucault
    French essayist and philosopher (1926 - 1984)
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  • Bill Condon But the imposition of morality onto science, - where it does not belong - has become rampant in recent years.
    Bill Condon
    American director and screenwriter (1955 - )
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  • Benjamin Graham Even the most conservative must realize that the recent transformation of surplus from an individual to a national disaster implies a scathing indictment of our capitalist system as it has now developed.
    Storage and Stability Part I, Ch. I, The Changing Role of Surplus Stocks
    Benjamin Graham
    British-born American economist, professor and investor (1894 - 1976)
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  • Austin O'Malley Exclusiveness is a characteristic of recent riches, high society, and the skunk.
    Austin O'Malley
    American writer, ophthalmologist and a professor of English literatur (1858 - 1932)
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  • A. J. P. Taylor History gets thicker as it approaches recent times: more people, more events, and more books written about them. More evidence is preserved, often, one is tempted to say, too much. Decay and destruction have hardly begun their beneficent work.
    A. J. P. Taylor
    British historian (1906 - 1990)
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  • Anthony Holden I don't accept at all the quite popular argument that the press is responsible for the monarchy's recent troubles. The monarchy's responsible for the monarchy's recent troubles. To blame the press is the old thing of blaming the messenger for the message.
    Anthony Holden
    English writer, broadcaster and critic
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  • Barry Humphries I really feel sorry for kids who aren't interested in history - recent history, either, because it is this that made us what we are.
    Barry Humphries
    Australian comedian, actor, artist, and author (1934 - 2023)
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  • Anthony Holden I've always said, since I got to know him and wrote about him, that he's the generation he least appeals to is his own and I think in many ways he was born middle-aged and that's become apparent in recent years.
    Anthony Holden
    English writer, broadcaster and critic
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  • Bob Ney In recent years personal injury attorneys and trial lawyers have attacked the food industry with numerous lawsuits alleging that these businesses should pay monetary damages to those who, of their own accord, consume too much of a legal, safe product.
    Bob Ney
    American politician (1954 - )
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  • Cass Sunstein In recent years, Republicans have argued that Congress is a more responsible policymaker than the executive branch. But when it comes to regulation, Congress is often much worse, and for just one reason: Executive agencies almost always focus on both costs and benefits, and Congress usually doesn't.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Alva Myrdal It is frightening that in recent years such an increase has occurred in acts of terrorism, which have even reached peaceful countries such as ours. And as a 'remedy', more and more security forces are established to protect the lives of individual men and women.
    Alva Myrdal
    Swedish sociologist, diplomat and politician (1902 - 1986)
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich Like many other women, I could not understand why every man who changed a diaper has felt impelled, in recent years, to write a book about it.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Alan Greenspan Look, I'm very much in favor of tax cuts, but not with borrowed money. And the problem that we've gotten into in recent years is spending programs with borrowed money, tax cuts with borrowed money, and at the end of the day that proves disastrous. And my view is I don't think we can play subtle policy here.
    Alan Greenspan
    American economist (1926 - )
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  • Carly Fiorina Most of the media... is positioning the merger with Compaq and the recent actions by Walter Hewlett and David Packard as a fight between the past and the future.
    Carly Fiorina
    American businesswoman and political (1954 - )
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