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Quotes by Historian
"From the beginning of the presidential nominating conventions in the 1830's really through the 1950's, you had conventions that actually did real business."
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"Who today is willing to say that Texas and California and the remainder of the Southwest would be better off if they were governed by Mexico?"
48
"If the white man wants to hold on to it, let him do so; but the Negro, so far as he is able, should develop and carry out a program of his own."
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48
"Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life."
48
"We may have to have a geo-political regrouping or major geo-political changes."
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"So the result was that as one approached a political convention for most of the 19th century and for most of the 20th century until the 1960's, part of the drama was the fact that you didn't know ultimately who was going to be the nominee at the end of that convention week."
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"Freedom rings bells to wake us from the comfort of beautiful dreams and empower the efforts that turn them into reality."
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"The author himself is the best judge of his own performance; none has so deeply meditated on the subject; none is so sincerely interested in the event."
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"The celebrity is a person who is known for his well-knownness."
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"A respectful woman is a righteous woman."
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"In an age where history is recorded on T-shirts, the very notion of dwelling on the deep structure of an experience has come to appear both arcane and archaic."
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"It's nice to be liked, but it's better to be respected."
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"Information, usually seen as the precondition of debate, is better understood as its by-product."
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"A new civilization was not to be improvised by a single mind."
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"Better than anything else in our culture, it enables fathers and sons to speak on a level playing field while building up from within a personal history of shared experience - a group history - that may be tapped into at will in years to come."
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"Even schools for Negroes, then, are places where they must be convinced of their inferiority."
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"Their poverty secured their freedom, since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism."
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"Read the stories of the past to write your story for the future."
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"My father felt that his world of ideas was too liberal for traditional rabbinical teachings, and he looked for a chance to find a way in life."
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"There was much woe and lamentation in the seventies that the game was dying."
47
"I would I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours."
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"A single breaker may recede; but the tide is evidently coming in."
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