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history Noam Chomsky

Noam Chomsky | history

The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful.

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Elie Wiesel history

Elie Wiesel | history

Now, when I hear that Christians are getting together in order to defend the people of Israel, of course it brings joy to my heart. And it simply says, look, people have learned from history.

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history Michelle Obama

Michelle Obama | history

There are still many causes worth sacrificing for, so much history yet to be made.

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history Tom Waits

Tom Waits | history

Their memory’s like a train: you can see it getting smaller as it pulls away And the things you can’t remember Tell the things you can’t forget that History puts a saint in every dream.

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Carroll Quigley | history

The history of the last century shows, as we shall see later, that the advice given to governments by bankers, like the advice they gave to industrialists, was consistently good for bankers, but was often disastrous for governments, businessmen, and the people generally.

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Christopher Hitchens history

Christopher Hitchens | history

‘WASP’ is the only ethnic term that is in fact a term of class, apart from redneck, which is another word for the same group but who are in the lower social strata, so it’s inexplicably tied up with social standing and culture and history in a way that the other hyphenations just are not.

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Bo Bennett history

Bo Bennett | history

If you think Abraham Lincoln became famous for inventing the town car, it is time to spend a few hours on history.

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Bo Bennett history

Bo Bennett | history

Value people on their potential, not on their history.

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history W.H. Auden

W. H. Auden | history

History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.

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Doug Coupland history

Doug Coupland | history

We live in an era with no historical precedents. History is no longer useful as a tool in helping us understand current changes.

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