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Quotes by Historian
"The trouble with the sacred Individual is that he has no significance, except as he can acquire it from others, from the social whole."
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"The susceptibility of the average modern to pictorial suggestion enables advertising to exploit his lessened power of judgment."
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"Reasonable orders are easy enough to obey; it is capricious, bureaucratic or plain idiotic demands that form the habit of discipline."
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"Where's the progress that we're going to see in Afghanistan? You have to keep public support both on the economy and the war or these things will really become troubling."
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"It is a sign that your reputation is small and sinking if your own tongue must praise you."
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"Negroes who have been so long inconvenienced and denied opportunities for development are naturally afraid of anything that sounds like discrimination."
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"England and France were rivals, not only on the continent, but in the West Indies, in India, and in Europe."
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"The knowledge that makes us cherish innocence makes innocence unattainable."
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"And thus goes segregation which is the most far-reaching development in the history of the Negro since the enslavement of the race."
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"Once a president gets to the White House, the only audience that is left that really matters is history."
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"Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle."
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"Do we settle on a regional team because we can go to its ballpark and see its games on television? Or do we choose a team as our favorite because it has an especially appealing player, a Barry Bonds or an Ichiro?"
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"A military road led from this point to Fort Leavenworth, and for many miles the farms and cabins of the Delawares were scattered at short intervals on either hand."
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"There is a curious relationship between a candidate and the reporters who cover him. It can be affected by small things like a competent press staff, enough seats, sandwiches and briefings and the ability to understand deadlines."
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"I don't care tuppence whether I'm forced into a leadership position or not. I'd much sooner not."
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"Unlike metaphor, metonymy does not try to fuse images together."
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"History can predict nothing except that great changes in human relationships will never come about in the form in which they have been anticipated."
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"They still have some money, and they have needs to supply. They must begin immediately to pool their earnings and organize industries to participate in supplying social and economic demands."
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"The smaller the function, the greater the management."
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"Boast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry of hope."
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"The fate of every democracy, of every government based on the sovereignty of the people, depends on the choices it makes between these opposite principles, absolute power on the one hand, and on the other the restraints of legality and the authority of tradition."
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"We are incredibly heedless in the formation of our beliefs, but find ourselves filled with an illicit passion for them when anyone proposed to rob us of their companionship."
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"Something fundamental about the myth of the Jew has resurfaced."
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"Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action."
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"Greatness is so often a courteous synonym for great success."
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"We know these men are professionals whose services are up for bid and whose bags are packed, and yet we call them our own and take personal, even civic pride in their accomplishments."
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"Religiously the Empire was pluralistic and marked by a search for a faith which would be satisfying intellectually and ethically and would give assurance of immortality."
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"In contrast, Christianity, while acknowledging the presence of suffering, declares that life can be infinitely worth living and opens the way to eternal life in fellowship with God Who so loved the world that He gave Himself in Christ."
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