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• We have gotten away from this double aspect of either putting the character back into historical events or of making a historical event of his very life.

  Raymond Queneau

  Character, Events, Aspect

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• I happened to happened to land in a time, in the middle '60s, that without knowing it, and without being told by the history of theater - which we now see from a historical point of view was an explosive time.

  James Earl Jones

  Views, Land, Knowing

  "The Voice of Triumph". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 29, 1996.

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• These pictures possibly give rise to questions of political content or historical truth. Neither interests me in this instance. And although even my motivation for painting them is probably of no significance, I am trying to put a name to it here, as an articulation, parallel to the pictures, as it were, of my disquiet and of my opinion.

  Gerhard Richter

  Art, Motivation, Names

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• The historical religions have the tendency to become ends in themselves, and, as it were, to put themselves in God's place, and, in fact, there is nothing that is so apt to obscure God's face as a religion.

  Martin Buber

  Religion, Faces, Facts

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• They become liberated spaces that can be occupied. A rich indetermination gives them, by means of a semantic rarefaction, the function of articulating a second, poetic geography on top of the geography of the literal, forbidden or permitted meaning. They insinuate other routes into the functionalist and historical order of movement. Walking follows them: 'I fill this great empty space with a beautiful name.'

  Michel de Certeau

  Beautiful, Mean, Order

  Michel de Certeau (2011). “The Practice of Everyday Life”, p.105, Univ of California Press

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• The fourth landing of the Columbia is the historical equivalent of the driving of the golden spike which completed the first transcontinental railroad. It marks our entrance into a new era.

  Ronald Reagan

  Moon, Railroads, Golden

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan)., Ronald Reagan, United States. Office of the Federal Register (1983). “Ronald Reagan”

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• The critical principle demanded an examination, for instance, of the contribution of different periods, thus to some extent embarking on historical linguistics.

  Ferdinand de Saussure

  Principles, Different, Examination

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• That one woman is capable of loving another is an historical truth; but never yet lived one who could not listen to her own praises at the expense of her adored friend.

  Minna Antrim

  Praise, Expenses, One Woman

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• Research can be a big clunker. It's difficult to know how you can make the historical light.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Light, Research, Bigs

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• That the apostolic office is temporary, is a plain historical fact.

  Charles Hodge

  Office, Facts, Apostolic

  Charles Hodge (1855). “What is Presbyterianism?: An Address Delivered Before the Presbyterian Historical Society at Their Anniversary Meeting in Philadelphia, on Tuesday Evening, May 1, 1855”, p.60

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• The text is merely one of the contexts of a piece of literature, its lexical or verbal one, no more or less important than the sociological, psychological, historical, anthropological or generic.

  Leslie Fiedler

  Criticism, Important, Pieces

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• As far as a truly radical conscience, you have to take it as part of a larger thing, that it was sort of historical inevitability that with the coming of a leaguer society people would start to use drugs a lot more then they had before.

  Lester Bangs

  People, Drug, Use

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

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• An active propaganda machinery controlled bv the world's largest corporations constantly reassures us that consumerism is the path to happiness, governmental restraint of market excess is the cause our distress, and economic globalization is both a historical inevitability and a boon to the human species.

  David Korten

  Growth, Causes, Economic Globalization

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• I'd love to do historical pictures more, but I don't know if I can.

  Oliver Stone

  Knows, Ifs, I Can

  "Featured filmmaker: Oliver Stone" by Stax, www.ign.com. November 17, 2003.

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• In any film there's always a historical implication.

  Oliver Stone

  Film, Implications

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• I believe it has been said that one copy of The Times contains more useful information than the whole of the historical works of Thucydides.

  Richard Cobden

  Believe, Information, Journalism

  Richard Cobden (1864). “Mr. Cobden and "The Times": Correspondence Between Mr. Cobden, M.P., and Mr. Delane, Editor of "The Times" ; with a Supplementary Correspondence Between Mr. Cobden, and the Editor of the "Daily Telegraph".”, p.10

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• It was clear to me that the forms of consciousness of our inherited and acquired historical education - aesthetic consciousness and historical consciousness - presented alienated forms of our true historical being.

  Hans-Georg Gadamer

  Consciousness, Form, Clear

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• I was not aware of how much I loved 'Canoa' until I saw it after doing 'Y Tu Mama Tambien' and realized that my voice - over about the story's historical context - that narrator - came from 'Canoa'.

  Alfonso Cuaron

  Voice, Narrators, Stories

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• Just because a company falls doesn't invalidate what we can learn by studying that company when it was at its historical best.

  James C. Collins

  Fall, Study, Company

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• One very important aspect of our contemporary musical culture - some might say the supremely important aspect - is its extension in the historical and geographical senses to a degree unknown in the past.

  George Crumb

  Past, Musical, Important

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• Unquestionably, our contemporary world of music is far richer, in a sense, than earlier periods, due to the historical and geographical extensions of culture to which I have referred.

  George Crumb

  Culture, World, Periods

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• I have long been active in and supportive of conservation and historical preservation causes.

  Jack L. Chalker

  Long, Supportive, Causes

  Jack L. Chalker (1988). “Dance Band on the Titanic”, Del Rey

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• I don't separate my books into historical novels and the rest. To me, they're all made-up worlds, and both kinds are borne out of curiosity, some investigation into the past.

  Peter Carey

  Book, Past, Historical Novels

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• It's very important to always put things in their historical contexts. It teaches important lessons about the country in question.

  Warren Christopher

  Country, Important, Lessons

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• I'm a history buff, and right now we're sitting on one of the most dramatic historical shifts that this planet has ever seen and we have a front row seat for it.

  James Daly

  Sitting, Dramatic, Planets

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