Historic Quotes - Page 4

• With the recent news that the State of Florida has agreed to purchase 181,000 acres of U.S. Sugar land, we have an historic opportunity for our larger restoration efforts and for the people of Florida. This too will not come without difficult challenges, but it reminds us that anything is possible.

  Debbie Wasserman Schultz

  Opportunity, Florida, Land

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• I think part of the disappointing failure of the political process in America today is that it's asking us to forget countries' historic connections to other countries, or to the laws that have been made. They're willfully asking people to forget their country's history, and focus only on the present. It's bizarre.

  Cate Blanchett

  Country, Thinking, People

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• Most people have a sense that things have gone terribly wrong. It's not just some giveaways to the rich and the rigging of regulatory rules. It's something fundamental. The very idea of America is being stolen, and people are sensing that with a tremor within their hearts. They are taking away this core notion of the common good, this idea that we are all in it together. They are diverting America from our historic striving towards egalitarianism, which is why America exists. It's the thing that makes us unique in history. That's what people are sensing. We are going down the wrong path.

  Jim Hightower

  Heart, Unique, People

  Source: progressive.org

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• My heart goes out to the brave citizens of Syria, who each day risk and even sacrifice their lives to achieve freedom from a murderous regime. We in Israel welcome the historic struggle to forge democratic, peace-loving governments in our region.

  Shimon Peres

  Struggle, Heart, Sacrifice

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• Tom Hanks, who starred in 'The Da Vinci Code,' turns out to be related to a number of the historic characters that feature in 'The Da Vinci Code,' including William the Conqueror and Shakespeare.

  Steven Pinker

  Character, Numbers, William The Conqueror

  "Surprising Family Trees!". abcnews.go.com. October 18, 2007.

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• Obama's victory in November 2008 was a historic political accomplishment.

  John Podhoretz

  Accomplishment, Political, Victory

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• Cuba continues to be a source of instability in the region. For example, historic numbers of people are fleeing the island of Cuba, putting migratory pressure on the United States. Number two, this Cuban government is anti-American. They sponsor - they allow the Chinese and the Russians to conduct espionage, electronic espionage and others from the island of Cuba.

  Marco Rubio

  People, Chinese, Cuban

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• I am not stonewalling. I am following the historic policies of the Department of Justice.

  Jeff Sessions

  Justice, Policy

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• As filmmakers, the Western is a historic, cool thing to be a part of once in your life.

  Ti West

  Filmmaker, Western

  Source: dailydead.com

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• African-Americans who might have disagreed with candidate Barack Obama's left-of-center politics voted for him in 2008 because electing a candidate with brown skin was too historic an opportunity to miss.

  Alveda King

  Opportunity, Missing, African American

  "Here's Hoping Herman Cain Will Stay In the Race" by Alveda King, www.foxnews.com. December 02, 2011.

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• We believe that the European Union is facing a truly historic choice.

  Jean-Pierre Raffarin

  Believe, Europe, Choices

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• During a historic gathering in Saudi Arabia, I called on the leaders of more than 50 Muslim nations to join together to drive out the menace which threatens all of humanity. We must stand united against shared enemies to strip them of their territory and their funding, and their networks, and any form of ideological support that they may have. While we will always welcome new citizens who share our values and love our people, our borders will always be closed to terrorism and extremism of any kind.

  Donald Trump

  People, Support, Leader

  Source: www.cnn.com

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• In physics there's the old law for every action there's a equal amount of reaction. Sometimes that's true in politics. If somebody's out there making nonsensical statements, but wielding power behind them a lot of people say, "Well, I need to react to that." Another reason for the increased prominence of the climate-change issue is the Paris Agreement itself. It's not a small thing when just about every nation in the entire world comes together and makes an historic agreement like this. It's a big deal. And the old cliché "The train is leaving the station" kind of applies.

  Al Gore

  People, Leaving, Together

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• Canadians expect their government to make sure we're helping the people who need the help and growing the economy, and that's exactly what we're committed to do, not just with our historic investments into infrastructure that are going to create jobs while the others are focusing on cuts, but by lowering payroll taxes, by lowering EI premiums from $1.88 to $1.65, at the same time as we make sure that the people who need help are getting the help that they paid into, because they're not getting it under Stephen Harper. That's what Canadians expect from their government.

  Justin Trudeau

  Cutting, People, Helping

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• There's a lot of disputes around the world, a lot of territorial conflicts around the world. But Israel is the only country in the world whose capital is not recognized. I don't think the United States recognizing Jerusalem as a capital will prevent any sort of peace agreement from happening in the future. It's not actually a sensible argument. What it will do is it will right a historic wrong. Something that should have happened 69 years ago will finally happen. And then we have to get about the process of trying to advance peace between the parties.

  Ron Dermer

  Country, Party, Thinking

  Source: www.politico.com

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• We're out of cocktail olives, it's a tragedy of historic proportions, but we're coping because we're Americans.

  Dean Koontz

  Tragedy, Cocktails, Olives

  Dean Koontz (2007). “The Darkest Evening of the Year: A Novel”, p.219, Bantam

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• The handy thing about being a father is that the historic standard is so pitifully low.

  Michael Chabon

  Father, Lows, Standards

  Michael Chabon (2012). “Manhood for Amateurs: The Pleasures and Regrets of a Husband, Father, and Son”, p.11, Harper Collins

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• We do not know whether Hitler is going to found a new Islam. He is already on the way; he is like Mohammad. The emotion in Germany is Islamic; warlike and Islamic. They are all drunk with wild god. That can be the historic future.

  Carl Jung

  Islamic, Drunk, Germany

  Carl Gustav Jung (1976). “The Collected Works of C. G. Jung: Miscellaneous writings”

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• Crosses and gallows - that deadly historic juxtaposition.

  Howard Zinn

  Juxtaposition, Crosses, Gallows

  Howard Zinn, Donaldo Macedo (2016). “Howard Zinn on Democratic Education”, p.82, Routledge

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• If you take a flower to Mars, for example, the hostility of Mars probably won't allow the flower to live without oxygen. The process of being an artist, for someone who wasn't born in an arts-centric environment - I came from the Bahamas, where there's not a historic tradition of art-making, at least from the Western prospective - in a way is kind of an alien concept.

  Tavares Strachan

  Art, Flower, Oxygen

  "Tavares Strachan's desert explosion" by Matt Mullen, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 1, 2017.

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• The arenas are historic sites, preserved after the Games. Popular destinations for Capitol residents to visit, to vacation. Go for a month, rewatch the Games, tour the catacombs, visit the sites where the deaths took place. You can even take part in reenactments. They say the food is excellent

  Suzanne Collins

  Vacation, Games, Months

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.192, Scholastic Inc.

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• The broader problem is that a great deal of popular preaching and teaching uses the bible as a pegboard on which to hang a fair bit of Christianized pop psychology or moralizing encouragement, with very little effort to teach the faithful, from the Bible, the massive doctrines of historic confessional Christianity.

  D. A. Carson

  Encouragement, Teaching, Effort

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• It is from the numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal or acts to improve the lot of others or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.

  Robert Kennedy

  Change, Hope, Courage

  Robert F. Kennedy (1998). “Make Gentle the Life of the World: The Vision of Robert F. Kennedy”, Harcourt

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• Changing the structure and rules of the global economy will require a mass movement based on messages of compassion, justice, and equality, as well as collaborative and democratic processes ... If we stay positive, inclusive, and democratic, we have a truly historic opportunity to build a global movement for social justice.

  Medea Benjamin

  Teamwork, Positivity, Opportunity

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• Real freedom comes from the mastery, through knowledge, of historic conditions and race character, which makes possible a free and intelligent use of experience for the purpose of progress.

  Hamilton Wright Mabie

  Freedom, Real, Knowledge

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