Historical Quotes - Page 19

• I feel a great responsibility playing a historical figure because whether they were good or bad, I feel like the person deserves a fair shake. It's like being the executor of their estate in some ways.

  Vincent Piazza

  Responsibility, Way, Estates

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• I find historical figures in general very tricky because you feel at times that you're serving two masters. Not only the arc and wonderful writing that comes with the show, but also the history of a person's life.

  Vincent Piazza

  Writing, Two, Wonderful

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• Nothing will ever top 'The Wire.' It was historical. It was black cinema.

  Lance Reddick

  Black, Wire, Cinema

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Christianity is a very historical religion - it makes specific claims that are open to testing.

  Lee Strobel

  Christianity, Claims, Testing

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• We have endless books about whether Jesus existed, or whether the Jesus we have learned about is really accurate and historical or mythical. We have endless complicated tracts on fine technical issues, but we don't explore Jesus' way to happiness and peace, or try to understand his feelings about God and creation of how he views our relationship with God, or his attitude toward human weakness. Understanding these things could help us immensely in our own search for inner peace and a meaning to life.

  Joseph Girzone

  Jesus, Attitude, Book

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• The Russian drama began at the end of 1991, when the Soviet Union mercifully ended. Russia and 14 other new countries emerged from the ruins of the Soviet Union. Every one of those 15 new states faced a profound historical, economic, financial, social and political challenge.

  Jeffrey Sachs

  Country, Drama, Russia

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• I've always loved writing emotionally rich, character-driven novels that explore the way people fall in love and deal with life's triumphs and tragedies. I enjoy writing the contemporary and historical books equally, though perhaps 'enjoy' is the wrong word.

  Susan Wiggs

  Falling In Love, Book, Writing

  Interview with Suzanne Fox, www.publishersweekly.com. January 28, 2002.

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• There's the historical part of The Beach Boys' music; it's pretty incredible, pretty vast and pretty varied too.

  Mike Love

  Beach, Boys, Incredibles

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• The only conclusion you can draw from the real historical movement is that by and large, in day-to-day life, what Lenin called trade union consciousness dominates the working class. I would call it elementary class consciousness of the working class.

  Ernest Mandel

  Real, Class, Movement

  Ernest Mandel (1994). “Revolutionary Marxism and social reality in the 20th century: collected essays”, Humanities Press Intl

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• At the time when this famous historical battle was fought in Kosovo, the people were looking at the stars, expecting aid from them. Now, six centuries later, they are looking at the stars again, waiting to conquer them.

  Slobodan Milosević

  Stars, People, Waiting

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• The annual award of $5,000 goes to an author for a meritorious book published in the previous year for children or young adults. Scott O'Dell established this award to encourage other writers--particularly new authors--to focus on historical fiction. He hoped in this way to increase the interest of young readers in the historical background that has helped to shape their country and their world.

  Scott O'Dell

  Country, Children, Book

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• I was a journalism major, and I would take creative writing classes as part of that, but I would also look for opportunities to write stories for some of my other classes. So for my course in Scandinavian history, I asked if I could write historical fiction instead of term papers. Sometimes they’d say yes.

  George R. R. Martin

  Writing, Opportunity, Class

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• Skepticism is an important historical tool. It is the starting point of all revision of hitherto accepted history.

  Samuel Eliot Morison

  Important, Tools, Revision

  Samuel Eliot Morison (1953). “By Land and by Sea: Essays and Addresses”, New York : Knopf

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• I have the most profound respect for the Department of Justice and the FTC. We in Europe are a younger and I would say junior institution to the historical antitrust experience of the US.

  Mario Monti

  Europe, Profound, Justice

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• I do not see class as a 'structure', nor even as a 'category', but as something which in fact happens (and can be shown to have happened) in human relationships... the notion of class entails the notion of historical relationship. ...And class happens when some men, as a result of common experiences (inherited or shared), feel and articulate the identity of their interests as between themselves, and as against other men whose interests are different from (and usually opposed to) theirs

  E. P. Thompson

  Men, Class, Identity

  E. P. Thompson (1963). “THE MAKING OF THE ENGLISH WORKING CLASS”

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• It is very clear from the historical record that without British help neither Wahhabism nor the House of Saud would be in existence today. Wahhabism is a British-inspired fundamentalist movement in Islam. Through its defense of the House of Saud, the US also supports Wahhabism directly and indirectly regardless of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Wahhabism is violent, right wing, ultra-conservative, rigid, extremist, reactionary, sexist, and intolerant.

  Andre Vltchek

  Wings, House, Support

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• That Man, who flees from truth, should have invented the mirror is the greatest of historical miracles.

  Christian Friedrich Hebbel

  Lying, Men, Mirrors

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• When I was growing up I loved reading historical fiction, but too often it was about males; or, if it was about females, they were girls who were going to grow up to be famous like Betsy Ross, Clara Barton, or Harriet Tubman. No one ever wrote about plain, normal, everyday girls.

  Kathryn Lasky

  Girl, Growing Up, Reading

  "Kathryn Lasky About A Journey to the New World". Interview with Richard F. Abrahamson and Linda M. Pavonetti, www.scholastic.com.

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• It is this conception of the unity of the human career which is perhaps the greatest achievement of historical study, since it gained a place analogous to that of natural science.

  James Henry Breasted

  Careers, Achievement, Unity

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• I don't think the British carry a historical consciousness either.

  Tom Paulin

  Thinking, Consciousness, British

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• The historical sense compels a man to write not merely with his own generation in his bones, but with a feeling that the whole of literature from Homer and within it the whole of the literature of his own country has a simultaneous existence and composes a simultaneous order.

  T. S. Eliot

  Country, Writing, Men

  T. S. Eliot (1998). “The Sacred Wood and Major Early Essays”, p.28, Courier Corporation

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• A living organism must be studied from two distinct aspects. One of these is the causal-analytic aspect which is so fruitfully applicable to ontogeny. The other is the historical descriptive aspect which is unravelling lines of phylogeny with ever-increasing precision. Each of these aspects may make suggestions concerning the possible significance of events seen under the other, but does not explain or translate them into simpler terms.

  Gavin de Beer

  Science, Two, Suggestions

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• The history of science is the saga of nature defying common sense.

  Kedar Joshi

  Nature, Science, Common Sense

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• Most of the history is a divine work of fiction.

  Kedar Joshi

  Fiction, Divine

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• The only way to get our society to truly change is to frighten people with the possibility of a catastrophe.

  Daniel Botkin

  People, Our Society, Way

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