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history V. S. Naipaul

V. S. Naipaul | history

It’s very attractive to people to be a victim. Instead of having to think out the whole situation, about history and your group and what you are doing… if you begin from the point of view of being a victim, you’ve got it half-made. I mean intellectually.

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Alfred North Whitehead history

Alfred North Whitehead | history

No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism in our time has been shoved aside, and we are paying the penalty for it.

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Paul Ryan | history

We wonder if we will be the first generation in American history to leave our children with fewer opportunities and a less prosperous nation than the one we inherited.

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Condoleezza Rice history

Condoleezza Rice | history

After all, when the world looks to America, they look to us because we are the most successful political and economic experiment in human history.

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history Jerry Saltz

Jerry Saltz | history

I love Rauschenberg. I love that he created a turning point in visual history, that he redefined the idea of beauty, that he combined painting, sculpture, photography, and everyday life with such gall, and that he was interested in, as he put it, ‘the ability to conceive failure as progress.’

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history Salman Rushdie

Salman Rushdie | history

Throughout human history, the apostles of purity, those who have claimed to possess a total explanation, have wrought havoc among mere mixed-up human beings.

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history Joan Rivers

Joan Rivers | history

Yeah, I read history. But it doesn’t make you nice. Hitler read history, too.

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history Morgan Freeman

Morgan Freeman | history

Black history is American history.

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history Jerry Saltz

Jerry Saltz | history

Our culture now wonderfully, alchemically transforms images and history into artistic material. The possibilities seem endless and wide open.

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Christopher Hitchens history

Christopher Hitchens | history

I think the materialist conception of history is valid.

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