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#historic

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For many of those who had historically supported welfare programs in the broadest sense, it was perfectly reasonable to enact legislation in which poor people were the objects of efforts to assist them.


Barney Frank


#broadest #broadest sense #efforts #enact #had

Meaning is socially, historically, and rhetorically constructed.


Clifford Geertz


#historically #meaning #socially

I incline to an aristocratic republic. This would satisfy the ambitious spirit among our people. We shall learn from the historic mistakes of others in the same way as we learn from our own; for we are a modern nation and wish to be the most modern in the world.


Theodor Herzl


#among #aristocratic #historic #i #incline

I want to say with the utmost of sincerity, not as a Republican, but as an American, that I have great respect for Senator Obama's historic achievement to become his party's nominee, not because of his color, but with indifference to it.


Mike Huckabee


#american #because #become #color #great

Ellis Peters's historical detail is very accurate and very minute, and therefore is not only interesting to read but good for an actor to acquire a sense of the period. And the other thing I think is that an actor lives in the land of imagination.


Derek Jacobi


#acquire #actor #detail #ellis #good

I have always made an effort to render every detail of my reality with the greatest accuracy; but I have never paid attention to whether my presentation of historical facts was an exact one.


Lion Feuchtwanger


#always #attention #detail #effort #every

Clinton has more important things to worry about. He not only risks being destroyed historically, like Afghanistan's Buddha statues; he also could end up going to jail.


Ed Koch


#afghanistan #also #being #buddha #clinton

For us, universal values such as justice, morality and peace cannot be disputed and it is for this reason that we pursue the restoration of historical truth.


Robert Kocharian


#disputed #historical #historical truth #justice #morality

I think that those are the things that you can uniquely do with film that are difficult to do anywhere else: they can bring a picture to life, give it a natural and historical context and make you feel that everything else is suddenly credible.


Robert Towne


#bring #context #credible #difficult #else

A judgment pronounced in accordance with the facts can therefore assign to it an historical place only within that movement of reformation which was brought to a victorious issue by King Josiah.


Julius Wellhausen


#assign #brought #facts #historical #issue






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