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historical details teach
Familiar life, tending to sordidness, had been succeeded by remote life, generally idealized; historical detail had been brought in to teach readers who were being entertained. Carl Clinton Van Doren
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
historical history original people period stoke tendency
I often tell people who want to write historical fiction: don't read all that much about the period you're writing about; read things from the period that you're writing about. There's a tendency to stoke up on a lot of biography and a lot of history, and not to actually get back to the original sources. Thomas Mallon
historical hold knew lives parents teachers truth
Teachers don't tell us the truth about historical people. If we knew the truth, parents couldn't hold their lives up as examples. Tom Hulce
historical records kind
I've got nothing against records - I've spent my life making them - but they are a kind of historical blip. Brian Eno
historical revolution fantasy
All revolutions are the sheerest fantasy until they happen; then they become historical inevitabilities. David Mitchell
historical excess world
An active propaganda machinery controlled bv the world's largest corporations constantly reassures us that consumerism is the path to happiness, governmental restraint of market excess is the cause our distress, and economic globalization is both a historical inevitability and a boon to the human species. David Korten
historical empires literature
The Sixties are now considered a historical period, just like the Roman Empire. Dave Barry
historical history images people
I'm a sponge for historical images of black people and black history on film. Kara Walker
facts doe surrender
The proper good of a creature is to surrender itself to its Creator—to enact intellectually, volitionally, and emotionally, that relationship which is given in the mere fact of its being a creature. When it does so, it is good and happy. C. S. Lewis
facts helping hiring interest lack minorities past state understanding women work
We have no interest in helping him (Coleman) be a martyr. He has demonstrated a lack of understanding of the facts in the past and probably misunderstands what this administration has accomplished in hiring minorities and women in the state work force. Brett Hall
facts
There is a lot being said, but if you take a look at facts and fundamentals, we are doing what we can. Ken Cohen
facts fountainhead rules-for-radicals
It is a sad fact of life that power and fear are the fountainheads of faith. Saul Alinsky
facts realizing chains
The fact is, women are in chains, and their servitude is all the more debasing because they do not realize it. Susan B. Anthony
facts fourth job safety tackled wait york zone
Wait just a minute. They didn't keep us out of the end zone. I was tackled in the end zone for a safety in the fourth quarter. Get your facts straight, or get a job working for the New York Times . Michael Bennett
facts embarrassing theft
[A] great embarrassing fact… haunts all attempts to represent the market as the highest form of human freedom: that historically, impersonal, commercial markets originate in theft. David Graeber
facts economic globalization
Globalization is a fact of economic life Carlos Salinas de Gortari
facts may opinion
You may alter an opinion, but you cannot alter a # fact . Charles Spurgeon
granted
I never take that for granted, but I'm always very aware that I'm one person and I can't wear everything. Charlize Theron
granted i-have-learned folly
I have learned yet again (this has been going on all my life) what folly it is to take any thing for granted without examining it skeptically. Jane Jacobs
granted harvest
It is not always granted to the sower to see the harvest. Albert Schweitzer
granted none
None of this has been granted for us yet to use.
granted
We can't take it for granted for sure.
granted relax richmond throughout until
We can't relax or take anything for granted until after Richmond is over. I know throughout the race, it fluctuated huge. At one point, I was 30th on the racetrack, but we were able to come back. Jamie McMurray
granted relax richmond until
We can't relax or take anything for granted until after Richmond is over.
granted universal
When something is universal enough in our everyday lives, we take it for granted to the point of forgetting it exists. Eliezer Yudkowsky
granted grew life matured obviously people sort taken telling wanting wonderful
I was very small, about 3 or 4 I think, and just wanted to be the people on telly telling these wonderful stories. Obviously the idea grew and matured with me but I can't ever remember wanting to do anything else. I've just sort of taken it for granted all my life that that was what I would do. David Tennant