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[In Bolivia] We want to overcome our historical problems with Chile. The sea has divided us and the sea must bring us back together again.
My friends in prison were mostly women more like myself: not historical figures who I did not relate to as peers, but hookers and addicts.
In every historical period, the religious groups that grow most rapidly are those that set believers at odds with the surrounding culture.
People who wrote literary novels about the past probably didn't want them pegged as historical fiction. Certainly that was true in England.
We need to understand that the Geneva Conventions are not just some historical documents born of another time, created for another purpose.
When a politician states that we are all in the same boat, be on Your guard. Does it mean that YOU are supposed to be doing all the rowing?
Great abilities are not requisite for an Historian; for in historical composition, all the greatest powers of the human mind are quiescent.
Pictures that will live on for years, like 'The Birth of a Nation' and 'Gone With the Wind,' had great historical events in the background.
For me, the original play becomes an historical document: This is where I was when I wrote it, and I have to move on now to something else.
I've managed to include only enough historical detail to give the "flavor" of the time period while keeping the characters and story focal.
The Odyssey is the story of Americans up to the point where they are well-established, and even so it is detached from the historical side.
The dogma of woman's complete historical subjection to men must be rated as one of the most fantastic myths ever created by the human mind.
It is no accident that the rise of so many democracies took place in a time when the world's most influential nation was itself a democracy.
I had no idea of the historical evolution of the civilized world's music and had not realized that all modern music owes everything to Bach.
I believe it has been said that one copy of The Times contains more useful information than the whole of the historical works of Thucydides.
Yet the companions of the Muses will keep their collective nose in my books And weary with historical data, they will turn to my dance tune.
I don't really have a historical overview of my work at all. I'm not an art historian. I don't see that there's this period and that period.
Mankind can live free in a society hemmed in by laws, but we have yet to find a historical example of mankind living free in lawless anarchy.
Science fiction is like a blender - you can put in any historical experience and take influences from everything you see, read or experience.
Obama's extraordinary political skills suggest he is more than capable of rising above any personal historical grudges he may have inherited.
Europe is a much more complex historical, cultural, and geographical concept than is envisaged in the reduced approach by the European Union.
We are here to advance the cause of women and to advance the cause of democracy and to make it absolutely clear that the two are inseparable.
Things are only mannequins and even the great world-historical events are only costumes beneath which they exchange glances with nothingness.
Stocks are a safe bet, but only if you stay invested long enough to ride out the . that squares with the facts, and with the historical record
To avoid entangling alliances has been a maxim of our policy ever since the days of Washington, and its wisdom no one will attempt to dispute.
The functional language is a radically anti-historical language: operational rationality has little room and little use for historical reason.
The historical record suggests that the transition to to a new hegemon has always been attended by what I have elsewhere called hegemonic war.
To those who don't know the historical truth, I would like to say today, Poland was not an aggressor but a victim during the Second World War.
Many of the things the slow food people honor were innovations within historical times. Somebody had to be the first European to eat a tomato.
Black women have to know the historical and everyday struggles of black men, and our men have to know the struggles of black women in America.
History viewed from the inside is always a dark, digestive mess, far different from the easily recognizable cow viewed from afar by historians.
The writer has little control over personal temperament, none over historical moment, and is only partly in charge of his or her own aesthetic.
As such the meaning of hegemony is subject to varying interpretations depending on how the historical role of the United States is interpreted.
Anybody who is familiar with the historical data from the IRS knows that raising income tax rates will likely actually reduce federal revenues.
[The task is to] covertly lower the standard of living, the whole social structure, of America so that we can be merged with all other nations.
[The historical] development in the international system may almost be defined as the process by which we pass from stable war to stable peace.
Telling about our lives is important for those who come after as, for those who will see our experience as part of their own historical struggle.
No one can take Jesus away from me. There's no doubt there was a historical figure of tremendous importance, with enormous notions. Such as peace.
My final historical romance came out December 2005. While I enjoyed writing medieval romances, I was also dying to write something with more edge.
History is not a web woven with innocent hands. Among all the causes which degrade and demoralize men, power is the most constant and most active.
Precise historical reasons are difficult to pinpoint, but red hair, it seems, bestows a sense of otherness. Red is the colour of blood and danger.
Oral history interviews allow us to document and chronicle people's stories; stories that might otherwise not be included in the historical record.
The amazing thing since so many variables enter into historical judgments, is not that historians disagree but that they agree as often as they do.
Perhaps our Irish friends should not so completely turn their backs on their historical dishes, no matter how many jokes they might have to endure.
Demanding historical (or scientific) veracity as a prerequisite for truth is another kind of tunnel vision. To do so is to mistake poetry for prose.
What's so amazing about this historical moment is that it is bringing class to the fore and we have to think about the nature of work and hierarchy.
The most important element of a free society, where individual rights are held in the highest esteem, is the rejection of the initiation of violence.
There's a historical milestone in the fact that our Apollo 11 landing on the moon took place a mere 66 years after the Wright Brothers' first flight.
No one can take Jesus away from me.... There's no doubt there was a historical figure of tremendous importance, with enormous notions. Such as peace.
Even as regards Earth we are more committed to history than to geography, more committed to time than to space. History is endless. Place is limited.