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I believe that historians and analysts of historical events need the authority of facts supplied by living witnesses to the events, which they make their subject.

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It is of course the nature of historical contraction that the shortest distance to a historical destination is never a straight line.

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I had the training at drama school where I studied Shakespeare and Brecht and Chekov and all these period historical playwrights and I think that I responded to the material.

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The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects - making it possible... to see a new beauty in what is vanishing.

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The career of politics grants a feeling of power. The knowledge of influencing men, of participating in power over them, and above all, the feeling of holding in one's hands a nerve fiber of historically important events can elevate the professional politician above everyday routine even when he is placed in formally modest positions.

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Certainly all historical experience confirms the truth - that man would not have attained the possible unless time and again he had reached out for the impossible.

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Historically, the family has played the primary role in educating children for life, with the school providing supplemental scaffolding to the family.

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To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts and deep sympathy. With the benefit of historical hindsight we can all see things which we would wish had been done differently or not at all.

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I lay no claim, it should be clear, to being a historian. So in my books, the intimate and personal have been intertwined inextricably with the broad and historical.

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The truth is that the history of Mexico is a history in the image of its geography: abrupt and tortuous. Each historical period is like a plateau surrounded by tall mountains and separated from the other plateaus by precipices and divides.

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Even though the society that Marx foresaw is far from being an historical reality, Marxism has penetrated so deeply in history that we are all Marxists, one way or another, even unknowingly.

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We should perceive that man's period of historical existence, a period so short that his physical constitution has not been altered in the slightest degree, is insufficient to allow of any considerable mental change.

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Historically, the stuff of the universe goes on becoming concentrated into ever more organized forms of matter.

Stuff Historically Concentrated Universe
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I am guiding you to seek truth from the facts of the historical conditions of our society and to identify the problems. The correct solutions will come with the correct identification of the problems.

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“I’m sometimes accused of drug trafficking. It’s an activity that for the time being, historically, shall we say has been declared illegal. It’s illegal at the moment, but in the long run and in the future, we’re going to show that it will head toward legalization.”

Drug Trafficking Ctivity Historically
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If in all ideology men and their circumstances appear upside-down as in a camera obscure, this phenomenon arises just as much from their historical life-process as the inversion of objects on the retina does from the physical life-process.

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Historically, men have a hard time getting onboard with feminism, but I think that's changing.

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Usually when I go to a place for the first time, unless there's something historical or spectacular that nature has to offer, the first thing I like to do is see what's on the minds of the people.

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Historically, I believe I was correct in refusing to answer their questions.

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After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it.

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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.

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My father loved to take us on historical vacations, and you should have seen the stares we received in East Berlin.

Berlin East Father Historical
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I know the world of opera so intimately: historical sweep, sharply defined characters, not too rational an explanation of what's going on. It's a feast.

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Mutual funds have historically offered safety and diversification. And they spare you the responsibility of picking individual stocks.

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The American public historically was really not part of the stock market.
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Bourgeois class domination is undoubtedly an historical necessity, but, so too, the rising of the working class against it. Capital is an historical necessity, but, so too, its grave digger, the socialist proletariat.

Against Bourgeois Capital Class
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The very action of the proletariat is a determining factor in history. And although we can no more jump over the stages of historical development than a man can jump over his shadow, nevertheless, we can accelerate or retard that development.

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The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.

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Historical novels are hard to do for the general public for commercial writers like myself.

Commercial General General Public Hard
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Historically, this has not been possible. Now, it is possible using the internet. Classical democracy is due for an overhaul. We need a direct democracy, where the citizens make decisions directly on policy, and where experts are selected by people to decide on particular matters

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The only thing that sets a nation free is not prayer.It's historical, spiritual and cultural truth. A nation that lacks in any of this has no basis in the present and definitely no palace in the future.

Only thing Nation free Payer Historical
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Why can't a woman be more like a man? Men are so honest, so thoroughly square; Eternally noble, historically fair; Who, when you win, will always give your back a pat. Why can't a woman be like that?

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I think the importance of doing activist work is precisely because it allows you to give back and to consider yourself not as a single individual who may have achieved whatever but to be a part of an ongoing historical movement.

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Our historical ties make it imperative to always look for solutions rather than focus on our differences.

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What would become of all historical biography if it was written only with consideration for other people's feelings?

Historical Biography Peoples' Feelings
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Great leaders understand that historical success tends to produce stable and inwardly focused organizations, and these outfits, in turn, reinforce a feeling of contentment with the status quo.

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I'm concerned about the survival, historically, of constitutional democracy.

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