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Boredom and fatigue are great historical forces. -- Jacques Barzun
It's so damn hard to write a great historical mystery based on fact. It's not for lack of trying. -- Jon Turteltaub
The Renaissance is studded by the names of the artists and architects, with their creations recorded as great historical events. -- Arthur Erickson
I think one of the great historical contributions of science is to weaken the hold of religion. That's a good thing. -- Steven Weinberg
A revolution that is based on the people exercising their creativity in the midst of devastation is one of the great historical contributions of humankind. -- Grace Lee Boggs
To have united the purposes of an entire Nation, is the great historical achievement of the man in whose strong hands our President has placed the fate of our people. -- Gustav Krupp
One belief, more than any other, is responsible for the slaughter of individuals on the alter of the great historical ideas - justice or progress or happiness of future generations... or emancipation of a nation or race or class... this is the belief that somewhere... there is a final solution. -- Isaiah Berlin
Americans must outgrow the unbecoming arrogance that leads us to assert that America somehow owns a monopoly on goodness and truth - a belief that leads some to view the world as but a stage on which to play out the great historical drama: the United States of America versus the Powers of Evil. -- Feisal Abdul Rauf
What does anyone really know about the impetus to go to war? And so much is uncovered in hindsight. And there are aspects of even past wars that are only coming out now. Historians discover letters here, notes there, and look very carefully at different aspects of not only any conflict but any great historical event. -- Jacqueline Winspear
It's a great historical joke that when the Spanish met the Aztecs, it was a blind date made in serve-you-right heaven. At the time, they were the two most unpleasant cultures in the entire world, and richly deserved each other. Still, the story of how stout Cortes blustered, bullied and bludgeoned his way to collapsing an entire empire with a handful of contagious hoodlums is astonishing. -- A. A. Gill
Yes, Socialists should defend their country in great historical crises. -- Karl Liebknecht
One of my great passions is the collection of historical trivia. -- Lynn Abbey
We encounter great souls, who lived in historical times, in ancient books. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
The great thing about really heightened historical dramas is that they can convey much larger themes. -- Cynthia Addai-Robinson
The four great motives for writing prose are sheer egoism, esthetic enthusiasm, historical impulse, and political purpose. -- George Orwell
As much as I care about historical context - I'm very eager to read a really great historical account. -- Jonathan Lethem
The blurring of fact and fiction has great commercial potential, which is bound to be corrupting in historical terms. -- Antony Beevor
Things are only mannequins and even the great world-historical events are only costumes beneath which they exchange glances with nothingness -- Walter Benjamin
The Renaissance is studded by the names of the artists and architects, with their creations recorded as great historical events." -- Arthur Erickson
Great abilities are not requisite for an Historian; for in historical composition, all the greatest powers of the human mind are quiescent. -- Samuel Johnson
The writing of history is largely a process of diversion. Most historical accounts distract attention from the secret influences behind great events. -- Frank Herbert
Tattooing is historical, cultural and a great form of art but it should always be safe for both the client and the tattoo practitioner. -- William Webb
Quite apart from any conscious program, the great cultural historians have always been historical morphologists: seekers after theforms of life, thought, custom, knowledge, art. -- Johan Huizinga
I found a great book called 'Slang Through the Ages' by Jonathon Green. It's basically a thesaurus of historical slang, and had lots of great old uses. -- Scott Westerfeld
The great thing about dealing with people about whom we have historical resources, is that if the writing needs work, there's everywhere to go to enrich it. -- Colin Firth
The Messianic era is the present age, which began to germinate with the teachings of Spinoza, and finally came into historical existence with the great French Revolution. -- Moses Hess
Post World War II America draws a great deal of interest, but the students also seem to know quite a bit about American exceptionalism and its historical roots. -- Mohammad Marandi
A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show the quality of the people as no historical reconstruction can. -- Edith Hamilton
In international relations, in foreign policy, a great deal has to do with historical circumstances, a great deal has to do with the sense and perception of people. -- Salman Khurshid
The metropolis reveals itself as one of those great historical formations in which opposing streams which enclose life unfold, as well as join one another with equal right. -- Georg Simmel
Great leaders understand that historical success tends to produce stable and inwardly focused organizations, and these outfits, in turn, reinforce a feeling of contentment with the status quo. -- John P. Kotter
Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He has forgotten to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce. -- Karl Marx
We consider Christmas as the encounter, the great encounter, the historical encounter, the decisive encounter, between God and mankind. He who has faith knows this truly; let him rejoice. -- Pope Paul VI
To have united the purposes of an entire Nation, is the great historical achievement of the man in whose strong hands our President has placed the fate of our people. -- Gustav Krupp

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