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• The honest and serious student of American history will recall that our Founding Fathers managed to write both the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution without using the term 'democracy' even once. No part of any of the existing state Constitutions contains any reference to the word. [The men] who were most influential in the institution and formulation of our government refer to 'democracy' only to distinguish it sharply from the republican form of our American Constitutional system.

  Clarence Manion

  Father, Writing, Men

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• The history of nations, in the sense in which I use the word, is often best studied in works not professedly historical.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Use, Nations

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• I shall cheerfully bear the reproach of having descended below the dignity of history.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Bears, Dignity, Nineteenth Century

  "History of England" by Thomas B. Macaulay, Vol. I, (Ch. 1), 1849-1861.

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• What exhibit buildings God will have! The historical exhibits, the scientific exhibits, the spiritual exhibits, to be able to see the marvelous wonders of the Spirit World!

  David Berg

  Spiritual, Able, World

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• Just as a child, before I ever knew what ballet was, there was something in me where I was always searching for something structured, something that was bigger than me, and something so historical that I could be a part of. I didn't find that until I stepped into the ballet world, and it was overwhelming, the feeling of being a part of something that's bigger than you.

  Misty Copeland

  Children, Ballet, Feelings

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• I'm a huge fan of Michael Hirst, and I'm a huge fan of historical drama.

  Donal Logue

  Drama, Fans, Huge

  "Donal Logue Talks Playing King Horik on VIKINGS, Joining COPPER Season 2, SONS OF ANARCHY, and TERRIERS on Kickstarter". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. May 5, 2013.

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• Instinct is like Nature herself - prodigiously conservative, and yet transcending her own historical conditions in her acts of creation.

  Carl Jung

  Conservative, Creation, Instinct

  Carl Gustav Jung (1960). “The structure and dynamics of the psyche”

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• The four great motives for writing prose are sheer egoism, esthetic enthusiasm, historical impulse, and political purpose.

  George Orwell

  Writing, Political, Purpose

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• I don't think one can accurately measure the historical effectiveness of a poem; but one does know, of course, that books influence individuals; and individuals, although they are part of large economic and social processes, influence history. Every mass is after all made up of millions of individuals.

  Denise Levertov

  Book, Thinking, Effectiveness

  Denise Levertov (1981). “Light Up the Cave”, p.123, New Directions Publishing

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• What I did that was new was to prove that the existence of classes is only bound up with particular, historical phases in the development of production; that the class struggle necessarily leads to the dictatorship of the proletariat; and that dictatorship itself only constitutes the transition to the abolition of all classes and to a classless society.

  Karl Marx

  Struggle, Class, Transition

  Karl Marx (2008). “The 18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte”, p.139, Wildside Press LLC

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• All the important human advances that we know of since historical times began have been due to individuals of whom the majority faced virulent public opposition.

  Bertrand Russell

  Progress, Important, Majority

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• Historical judgement is not a variety of knowledge, it is knowledge itself; it is the form which completely fills and exhausts the field of knowing, leaving no room for anything else.

  Benedetto Croce

  Knowledge, Knowing, Leaving

  Benedetto Croce (1941). “History as the Story of Liberty”

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• I can not be mistaken - what I say and do is historical.I follow my life with the precision and security of a sleep walker

  Adolf Hitler

  Sleep, Precision, Walkers

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• Moreover, the eye contains a big flaw: the retina is inside out. Why would an almighty designer do such a thing? No intelligent designer, .. would put such a clumsy arrangement in a camcorder, and this is just one of the hundreds of accidents frozen in evolutionary history that confirm the mindlessness of the historical process.

  Daniel Dennett

  Eye, Intelligent, Frozen

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• Familiar life, tending to sordidness, had been succeeded by remote life, generally idealized; historical detail had been brought in to teach readers who were being entertained.

  Carl Clinton Van Doren

  Details, Teach, Familiar

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• Historical methodology, as I see it, is a product of common sense applied to circumstances.

  Samuel Eliot Morison

  Common Sense, Methodology, Circumstances

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• The reporters are needed to validate the historical record.

  Witold Walczak

  Records, Needed, Reporters

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• The secular university is scandalized by the claims of revelation. Those who have, for whatever historical reasons, become seekers-on-principle, cannot tolerate the allegation that truth is a gift. To have to receive offends those who have determined to take.

  Louis Mackey

  Principles, Determined, Christianity

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• The purer the artist's 'mirror' is, the more true reality reflects in it. Overseeing the historical culture of art, we must conclude that the mirror only slowly is purified. Time producing this purifying shows a gradual, more constant and objective image of reality.

  Piet Mondrian

  Art, Reality, Mirrors

  Piet Mondrian, Harry Holtzman, Martin S. James (1986). “The new art--the new life: the collected writings of Piet Mondrian”, Twayne Pub

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• No matter how brilliant, amusing or intelligent the creek of abstraction, Dadaism, Minimalism and Conceptualism of the 20th century was, it didn't much affect the historical river of figuration. I predict that in 50 years and in 300 years, figurative art will still be strong and important.

  Mark Kostabi

  Art, Strong, Intelligent

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• For the first time in the history of the world, every human being is now subjected to contact with dangerous chemicals, from the moment of conception until death.

  Rachel Carson

  History, Environmental, World

  Rachel Carson (2002). “Silent Spring”, p.15, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• One little person, giving all of her time to peace, makes news. Many people, giving some of their time, can make history.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Peace, People, Giving

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.99, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• The dollar represents a one dollar debt to the Federal Reserve System. The Federal Reserve Banks create money out of thin air to buy Government Bonds from the U.S. Treasury...and has created out of nothing a ... debt which the American people are obliged to pay with interest.

  Wright Patman

  Government, Air, People

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• We must strengthen the United Nations as a first step toward a World Government, patterned after our Own Government with a legislature, executive and judiciary, and police to enforce its international laws and keep the peace.

  Walter Cronkite

  World Government, Police, Firsts

  "United Nations, National Sovereignty and the Future of the World". Speech upon receiving the Norman Cousins Global Governance Award, the UN Delegates Dining Room, www.thirdworldtraveler.com. October 19, 1999.

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• A system of world order-preferably a system of world government -is mandatory... The proud nations someday will see the light and, for the common good and their own survival, yield up their precious sovereignty.

  Walter Cronkite

  Order, World Government, Yield

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