#historic

All societies are historical. ↗

— Raymond Queneau

#societies

Many novelists take well-defined, precise characters, whose stories are sometimes of mediocre interest, and place them in an important historical context, which remains secondary in spite of everything. ↗

— Raymond Queneau

#context #everything #historical #important #interest

The Odyssey is the story of Americans up to the point where they are well-established, and even so it is detached from the historical side. ↗

— Raymond Queneau

#even #historical #odyssey #point #side

Islam, the third in historical sequence of the ethical monotheistic religions of the Near East, was very successful in establishing its monotheism, but had only very moderate success in spreading its version of Jewish and Christian ethics to the Arabs. ↗

— Carroll Quigley

#christian #east #establishing #ethical #ethics

We believe that the European Union is facing a truly historic choice. ↗

— Jean-Pierre Raffarin

#choice #european #european union #facing #historic

The United States is historically a nation of immigrants. ↗

— Charles Rangel

#immigrants #nation #states #united #united states

The sense of historical continuity, and a feeling for philosophical rectitude cannot, however, be compromised. ↗

— Herbert Read

#compromised #continuity #feeling #historical #however

Typically, an historic site is considered by the National Park Service to contain a single historical feature, while generally a National Historic Park extends beyond single properties or buildings. ↗

— Rick Renzi

#buildings #considered #contain #extends #feature

Something that came as a shock to me is that we do not have a constitutional right to vote. And that's not just a fun little historical factoid. It actually has huge ramifications. It's the reason our system is so decentralized - in other words, chaotic. ↗

— Mo Rocca

#came #chaotic #constitutional #constitutional right #fun

Historically, there has been a bull market in commodities every 20 or 30 years. ↗

— Jim Rogers

#bull #bull market #commodities #every #historically