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historical intellectual use
History not used is nothing, for all intellectual life is action, like practical life, and if you don't use the stuff - well, it might as well be dead. Arnold J. Toynbee
historical facts fiction
The blurring of fact and fiction has great commercial potential, which is bound to be corrupting in historical terms. Antony Beevor
historical history image mexico period plateau separated surrounded tall truth
The truth is that the history of Mexico is a history in the image of its geography: abrupt and tortuous. Each historical period is like a plateau surrounded by tall mountains and separated from the other plateaus by precipices and divides. Octavio Paz
historical history images people
I'm a sponge for historical images of black people and black history on film. Kara Walker
historical fascists century
Fascism is a religion. The twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism. Benito Mussolini
historical may fields
I came into history from a primary concern with mathematics and science. This has been a tremendous help to me as a person and as a historian, although it must be admitted it has served to make my historical interpretations less conventional than may be acceptable of many of my colleagues in the field. Carroll Quigley
historical spy novel
I invented the historical spy novel. Alan Furst
historical vision magic
Disneyworld...is a historical reconstruction as sanitised as the Kremlin's, and a future vision as uncognisant of contemporary pointers as Peter Pan's. It is a magic carpet under which everything has been swept. Alan Coren
historical knowledge
When I'm working on historical books, I'm much more organized. I usually read about 100 books to get the depth of knowledge I need. Marissa Moss
women roots branches
We never leave our roots. We just grow new branches. Audrey Meadows
women i-hate-you compassion
People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone. Audrey Hepburn
women-empowerment littles next
Next time, ask: What's the worst that will happen? Then push yourself a little further than you dare. Audre Lorde
women responsibility gay
Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity. Women are expected to educate men. Lesbians and gay men are expected to educate the heterosexual world. The oppressors maintain their position and evade their responsibility for their own actions. There is a constant drain of energy which might be better used in redefining ourselves and devising realistic scenarios for altering the present and constructing the future.
women opportunity thinking
I think the bottom of the totem pole is African-American women, or women of colour. I think they get the least opportunities in Hollywood. Denzel Washington
women home eagles
I'll dig in into my days, having come here to live, not to visit. Grey is the price of neighboring with eagles, of knowing a mountain's vast presence, seen or unseen. Denise Levertov
women fall ebb-and-flow
If woman is inconstant, good, I am faithful to ebb and flow, I fall in season and now is a time of ripening.
women believe character
Man is more courageous, pugnacious, and energetic than woman, and has a more inventive genius. His brain is absolutely larger, butwhether or not proportionally to his larger body, has not, I believe, been fully ascertained. In woman the face is rounder; the jaws and the base of skull smaller; the outlines of the body rounder, in parts more prominent; and her pelvis is broader than in man; but this latter character may perhaps be considered rather as a primary than a secondary sexual character. She comes to maturity at an earlier age than man. Charles Darwin
women want doe
What does a woman want? More. Chris Evans
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The average American doesn't realize how much of the laws are written by lobbyists. Eric Schmidt
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'Swimming Pool' was a very important moment for me because the character was written for me. Ludivine Sagnier
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I've done episodic television and some other things that have been written by other people. Lisa Cholodenko
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I would be miserable if I went to bed without having written 1,000 words about something. Max Hastings
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I had written 'Two Lovers' before we started shooting 'We Own the Night.' James Gray
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I've just always written songs in a style that appeal to me personally. Lyle Lovett
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Something's that written out is okay, but it's not always a clear indication of what a person means. Debbie Harry
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What is the poem, after it is written? That is the question. Not where it came from or why. Allen Tate
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Education is education, be it verbal or written. Aamir Khan