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• Ever since I first visited New Orleans back in '89, I've been intrigued by the French Quarter. I always wanted to set something in the Quarter, whether it was historic or contemporary. Unfortunately, I was always tied up with previous commitments - earlier multiple contracts - and could not get a crack at it.

  Robert Asprin

  Commitment, New Orleans, French Quarter

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• Battles that involve oatmeal are just never going to end up being historic, you know?" Jake went on. "Gettysburg? No major oatmeal involvement. The Battle of Midway? Neither side used oatmeal. Desert Storm? No oatmeal.

  Katherine Applegate

  Oatmeal, Storm, Battle

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• American power worldwide is at its historic zenith.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Zenith, American Power

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• When a market makes a historic high, it is telling you something. No matter how many people tell you why the market shouldn't be that high, or why nothing has changed, the mere fact that the price is at a new high tells you something has changed.

  Larry Hite

  People, Matter, Facts

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• Deliberately, on every historic occasion, we piously fake events for the benefit of photographers, while the actual event often occurs in a different fashion; and we have the effrontery to call these artful dress rehearsals authentic historic documents.

  Lewis Mumford

  Fashion, Fake, Events

  Lewis Mumford, Casey Nelson Blake (2000). “Art and Technics”, p.97, Columbia University Press

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• Historic in a good sense, not historic in a sense of 'so we dropped bombs on everyone.

  Jon Stewart

  Bombs, Good Sense

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• What does calling this medical care legislation "historic" mean? It means that previous administrations gave up the idea when it became clear that the voting public did not want government control of medical care. What is "historic" is that this will be the first administration to show that it doesn't care one bit what the public wants or doesn't want.

  Thomas Sowell

  Mean, Government, Ideas

  "Unhealthy Arrogance". www.realclearpolitics.com. December 29, 2009.

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• We`re in an historic drought, and that demands unprecedented action.

  Chris Hayes

  Demand, Action, Drought

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• The historic idea that the devil tempts men had this remarkable effect, it produced the man of iron who fought; the modern idea of blaming his heredity or his circumstances produces the man who gives in at once.

  Oswald Chambers

  Men, Ideas, Iron

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• If you had to explain America's economic success with one word, that word would be "education".... Until now, the results of educational neglect have been gradual - a slow-motion erosion of America's relative position. But things are about to get much worse, as the economic crisis ... deals a severe blow to education across the board.... We need to wake up and realize that one of the keys to our nation's historic success is now a wasting asset. Education made America great; neglect of education can reverse the process.

  Paul Krugman

  Education, Blow, America

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• We've taken bold action at home by making historic investments in renewable energy, by putting our people to work increasing efficiency in our homes and buildings, and by pursuing comprehensive legislation to transform to a clean energy economy.

  Barack Obama

  Taken, Home, People

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• I fully agree with you about the significance and educational value of as well as history and philosophy of science. So many people today - and even professional - seem to me like someone who has seen thousands of trees but has never seen a forest. A knowledge of the historic and philosophical background gives that kind of independence from prejudices of his generation from which most scientists are suffering. This independence created by philosophical insight is - in my opinion - the mark of distinction between a mere artisan or specialist and a real seeker after truth.

  Albert Einstein

  Philosophy, Real, Educational

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• The Marines estimate that roughly a hundred or 200 women will be interested in going into these jobs - roughly 2 percent of those jobs. Still, this is historic. It's a biggest cultural change in the military maybe ever, probably bigger than integrating the force back in 1948 when African-Americans were no longer segregated in separate units.

  Renee Montagne

  Jobs, Military, Marine

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Hillary Clinton wants to run on the historic nature of her candidacy. I will force her to run on accountability for the Clinton way.

  Carly Fiorina

  Running, Accountability, Want

  "Fiorina: Trump is a Clinton Christmas gift, I'm the lump of coal; US doing enough to defeat ISIS?". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. December 20, 2015.

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• The Jew...is not content merely to destroy Christianity, but he preaches the gospel of Judaism; he not only assails the Catholic or the Protestant faith, but he incites to the unbelief, and then imposes on those whose faith he has undermined his own conception of the world, of morality and of life. He is engaged in his historic mission, the annihilation of the religion of Christ.

  Bernard Lazare

  Catholic, World, Morality

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• Our historic imagination is at best slightly developed. We generalise and idealise the past egregiously. We set up little toys to stand as symbols for centuries and the complicated lives of countless individuals.

  John Dewey

  Past, History, Imagination

  John Dewey (1970). “Characters and events: popular essays in social and political philosophy”

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• For me, in fact, the mark of the historic is the nonchalance with which it picks up an individual and deposits him in a trend, like a house playfully moved by a tornado.

  Mary McCarthy

  History, House, Nonchalance

  Mary McCarthy (2002). “A Bolt from the Blue and Other Essays”, New York Review of Books

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• Hundreds of scientists from around the world are gathering in Washington, D.C. for what some say could be a historic meeting. They are attending an international summit to debate one of the most controversial subjects in modern science , editing human DNA.

  Linda Wertheimer

  Editing, Dna, World

  Source: www.npr.org

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• We stand today at a unique and extraordinary moment. The crisis in the Persian Gulf , as grave as it is, also offers a rare opportunity to move toward an historic period of cooperation. Out of these troubled times, our fifth objective - a new world order - can emerge: a new era - freer from the threat of terror, stronger in the pursuit of justice, and more secure in the quest for peace. An era in which the nations of the world, East and West, North and South, can prosper and live in harmony.

  George H. W. Bush

  Moving, Unique, Opportunity

  George H. W. Bush, Brent Scowcroft (2011). “A World Transformed”, p.370, Vintage

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• The fingers and toes and beating hearts that we can see on an unborn child's ultrasound come with something that we cannot see: a soul

  George W. Bush

  Children, Heart, Ultrasounds

  George W. Bush's address to March for Life Rally Participants, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. January 22, 2008.

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• A historic operation occurred over in Boston. Doctors successfully transplanted tissue from a pig's brain to a man's brain -- and the man's brain did not reject it. That pretty much confirms what women have been saying about men.

  Jay Leno

  Men, Boston, Doctors

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The sweet smell of the South, of Camellias and Azaleas, clings to Beaufort's ancient and historic buildings.

  Walter Cronkite

  Sweet, Azaleas, Smell

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• In a musically imperfect world, there is still perfection in the voice of Barbara Cook. For anyone eulogizing the historic scores of a long-lost era of Broadway greatness, not to worry. Somebody is still singing them with purity and passion. She is Barbara Cook, and she sings them for the angels to applaud.

  Rex Reed

  Passion, Angel, Greatness

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• Ten thousand times has the labor movement stumbled and bruised itself. We have been enjoined by the courts, assaulted by thugs, charged by the militia, traduced by the press, frowned upon in public opinion, and deceived by politicians. 'But notwithstanding all this and all these, labor is today the most vital and potential power this planet has ever known, and its historic mission is as certain of ultimate realization as is the setting of the sun.

  Eugene V. Debs

  Thug, Labour Movement, Political

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• This Constitutional Republic called America is an historic aberration. Any honest student of history will note that the prevailing socio-economic system is feudalism, where a tiny minority control the vast majority of wealth, power, and resources. In doing so, they have absolute control over the 99% of the population. Power equals control.

  Howard Nemerov

  America, Majority, Population

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