Historical Significance Quotes

• Students of American glass must always keep in mind that the creations they collect are truly examples of our American culture... and thus have historical significance.

  James Lafferty

  Glasses, Historical, Mind

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• A word is nothing unless it has values and an atmosphere, unless you grasp its historical significance.

  Stefan Zweig

  Historical, Atmosphere, Significance

  Stefan Zweig (1955). “Stories and Legends”

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• If a source gives us material that is of political, diplomatic, ethical or historical significance that has not been published before and is comprised of official documents or recordings, then we will publish it.

  Julian Assange

  Giving, Political, Historical

  "We Believe in What We're Doing". Interview with Michael Sontheimer, www.spiegel.de. September 30, 2016.

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• When we were covering the 2008 campaign I told my young African American colleagues that despite the historical significance of victory, Barack Obama was going to break their hearts. They didn't want to hear that, and they refused to believe it. Eighteen months later they started dropping by one by one to say, sadly: "He broke our hearts." A couple of them even wept.

  Bill Moyers

  Couple, Believe, Heart

  Source: progressive.org

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• Every Jewish holiday has a religious significance, a historical significance, and a relevance to the time of year in the natural calendar of the seasons and trees and growing things, as well as a personal significance. So you are always looking backward, outward, inward and forward.

  Marge Piercy

  Religious, Holiday, Years

  Interview with Charlotte Templin, margepiercy.com. May 2004.

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• My likely historical significance is a terrible burden. ~ Calvin

  Bill Watterson

  Historical, Burden, Terrible

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• At the end of the first half-century of engine-driven flight, we are confronted with the stark fact that the historical significance of aircraft has been primarily military and destructive.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Military, Flying, Historical

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• Most expositions of Aristotle's doctrines, when they have not been dictated by a spirit of virulent detraction, or unsympathetic indifference, have carefully suppressed all, or nearly all, the absurdities, and only retained what seemed plausible and consistent. But in this procedure their historical significance disappears.

  George Henry Lewes

  Historical, Doctrine, Spirit

  George Henry Lewes (1864). “Aristotle: a chapter from the history of science including analyses of Aristotle's scientific writings”, p.9, London : Smith, Elder and Company

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