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The problem of telling contemporary history is that your message gets outdated. -- Salman Rushdie
An obituary should be an exercise in contemporary history, not a funeral oration. -- Peter Utley
If privacy ends where hypocrisy begins, Kitty Kelley's steamy expose is a contribution to contemporary history. -- Eleanor Clift
As contemporary history reminds us we are human to the extent that we are able to chose between alternatives. -- John G. D. Clark
The Cold War in Africa is one of the darkest, most disgraceful pages in contemporary history, and everybody ought to be ashamed. -- Ryszard Kapuscinski
All history is contemporary history. -- Benedetto Croce
Knowledge Qf history frees us to be contemporary. -- Lynn Townsend White, Jr.
...Venice has been the living future of contemporary American history since its inception. -- Liam Neeson
The contemporary historian never writes such a true history as the historian of a later generation. -- Agatha Christie
Poles must understand history but we must also overcome it if it is obstructing our contemporary goals. -- Donald Tusk
History, when they do it, is ancient history, and they sensationalize even that. Contemporary history is virtually ignored on television. -- Tariq Ali
In contemporary society [the typical lady] is an archaism, and can't hardly understand herself unless she knows her own history. -- Emily James Smith Putnam
You might argue that the history of contemporary art is a series of avant-garde movements, each new wave outraging the last. -- Michael Scott
Irene Bennett Brown keeps the promise of her gifted writing and love for history inside this fine contemporary mystery. I loved it. -- Jane Kirkpatrick
Leo Strauss's discoveries in the history of political philosophy had the effect of liberating his students from the yoke of contemporary thought. -- William Kristol
The history of the development of contemporary writing in Vancouver from 1946 to 1960 is pretty largely a one-man show, and that man was me. -- Earle Birney
Today's terrorism is not the product of a traditional history of anarchism, nihilism, or fanaticism. It is instead the contemporary partner of globalization. -- Jean Baudrillard
With the destruction of history, contemporary events themselves retreat into a remote and fabulous realm of unverifiable stories, uncheckable statistics, unlikely explanations and untenable reasoning. -- Guy Debord
I was an art history major, but never specifically contemporary. I would say where I really stopped were the abstract expressionists in the New York school. -- Vera Wang
History, if thoroughly comprehended, furnishes something of the experience which a man would acquire who should be a contemporary of all ages and a fellow citizen of all peoples. -- Philibert Joseph Roux
Contemporary feminism cut itself off from history and bankrupted itself when it spun its puerile, paranoid fantasy of male oppressors and female sex-object victims. Woman is the dominant sex. -- Camille Paglia

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