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Revolutionary intellectuals have the historic mission of inventing the vocabulary and the themes for the next tyranny. — Nicolas Gomez Davila

I had been an eyewitness to a truly historic moment in American pop culture. — Jean Shepherd

The assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr., and Robert F. Kennedy led directly to the passage of a historic law, the Gun Control Act of 1968. — Jeffrey Toobin

Travel Tip: Relax. It's not a crime to want to sit in a cafe and not take a walking our of all those historic monuments in your peripheral vision. — Vivian Swift

The 1930s had been a time of tremendous economic distress. And the unemployment rate was enormously high by any historic standard. — William O'Neill

Historic justice has been done by killing Saddam. — Shimon Peres

Russia will not soon become, if it ever becomes, a second copy of the United States or England - where liberal value have deep historic roots. — Vladimir Putin

For us to be the team that got him that historic 10th championship is special for us. — Kobe Bryant

It is not enough for a landscape to be interesting in itself. Eventually there must be a moral and historic interest. — Stendhal

The historic function of a Senator from Oregon is to drive all the other Senators mad. — Ursula K. Le Guin

Let's use the energy of this historic year to propel us toward our shared vision of a greater Boston. — Thomas Menino

It don't take long to stay all night here! — Charles Dahnmon Whitt

we rescue our tears from the sea
secure them by writ — M. NourbeSe Philip

To conclude that women are unfitted to the task of our historic society seems to me the equivalent of closing male eyes to female facts. — Lyndon B. Johnson

Goering's ideas betray a consistent desire to create something essentially new, implying all the historic virtues, but unlike [anything] of the past. — Richard Overy

We believe that the European Union is facing a truly historic choice. — Jean-Pierre Raffarin

It's very important that historic cities are allowed to reinvent their future. — Zaha Hadid

I won't predict anything historic. But nothing is impossible. — Michael Phelps

I listen to archival and historic recordings. I love watching singers. I learned a lot from watching videos. — Renee Fleming

Hillary Clinton wants to run on the historic nature of her candidacy. I will force her to run on accountability for the Clinton way. — Carly Fiorina

Our freedoms were born in the ideals of the Enlightenment and the musket fires of an historic revolution. — John Boehner

I think Steve Jobs is a historic figure. He's not only a historic figure in business, but really in America. — Walt Mossberg

We must now view our problems as opportunities - historic opportunities to change the failed systems of the past and do what's right for our future. — Bob Riley

You can't handle the truth . You can't handle the sad but historic reality. — Aaron Sorkin

This is a historic moment in global public health, demonstrating the international will to tackle a threat to health head on. — Gro Harlem Brundtland

A time of historic change is no time for recklessness. — George H. W. Bush

The Pre-Historic Age Ended With A Bang. This Post-Historic Age Will End With A Cumshot Of An Auto Asphyxiated Minor Celebrity — Dean Cavanagh

President Obama will go down as having passed some of the most historic bills in the history of this country. — Kevin Spacey

But the good deed, through the ages Living in historic pages, Brighter grows and gleams immortal, Unconsumed by moth or rust. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

President Obama himself has attributed the legitimacy of the Jewish State not to its historic identity as Jewish territory, but to the Holocaust. — Ben Shapiro

History is finite-there's only so much you can learn about a six square block historic district in New York City. (Dark City Lights) — Kat Georges

If I can generate enough income, I'd like to get a castle, a historic castle that I can restore. — Henry Thomas

People have to be reminded that unions played a very historic role in our economy. — Hilda Solis

There is no historic incident better or more variously supported than the resurrection of Christ. — Brooke Westcott

Judaism stands or falls with its belief in the historic actuality of the revelation at Sinai. — Joseph Hertz

I always emphasize the historic role of people of color in organizing and protesting to achieve justice. — Howard Zinn

Eclipse of the light of heaven, eclipse of God - such indeed is the character of the historic hour through which the world is now passing — Martin Buber

If you want to make history, you have to do historic things — Kobe Bryant

An historic institution, which never went right, is really quite much of a miracle as an institution that cannot go wrong. — G.K. Chesterton

The handy thing about being a father is that the historic standard is so pitifully low. — Michael Chabon

The sweet smell of the South, of Camellias and Azaleas, clings to Beaufort's ancient and historic buildings. — Walter Cronkite

I feel like Jonah Hill would be a good selfie, or Jennifer Lawrence. They'd be really good ones ... Historic. — Sarah Hyland

We are fashioned not by our genes, but by our environment - by the family and socio-historic conditions in which we evolve. — Michel Onfray

Many great horror stories are period pieces and English actors have a facility for historic characters. — Robert Englund

This is an historic step forward in the world's efforts to combat a truly global threat. — Kofi Annan

[The PlayStation 2 is a] historic, a mass-market appliance that fundamentally changes society in the way the printing press did. — Trip Hawkins

We saw the president of the United States engage American troops in a fourth conflict in a foreign land. This is historic. — Michele Bachmann

Eventually, in an historic feat of compromise, democracy was restored by the abolition of elections.. — Louis De Bernieres

The world is facing a historic turning point because the system of materialistic liberalism has come to a deadlock. — Kingoro Hashimoto

If all the historic books of the Bible were blotted from the memory of mankind, nothing of value would be lost.. — Robert Green Ingersoll

Call it anything else if you will - fear, anxiety, nervousness, sweating
- but "shyness" is the historic word for it. — Richard N. Bolles

Get it out of your historic head. — Imogen Cunningham

I can explain it to you, but I can't make you understand it. — R. Gaston

We must stop spending money that we just don't have. Historic debt leads to historic tax increases, which stifle job growth. — Kristi Noem

Young Americans are dropping out of religion at an alarming rate of five to six times the historic rate. — Robert D. Putnam

You don't let a historic site rot. — Robert Ballard

They must attack us in order to survive, just as we must destroy them to advance our historic mission. — Michael A. Ledeen

For a time, Greeley seemed to be following the historic advice he had once given young Josiah Grinnell: "Go West, young man, go West. — Harold Holzer

The Eurasian union is a project meant to preserve the identities of nations and the historic Eurasian community in the new century, in a new world. — Vladimir Putin

Every championship, by definition, is historic. — George Vecsey

In the end, the Labour party could cease to represent labour. Stranger historic ironies have happened than that. — Enoch Powell

For a novelist, a given historic situation is an anthropologic laboratory in which he explores his basic question: What is human existence? — Milan Kundera

We're out of cocktail olives, it's a tragedy of historic proportions, but we're coping because we're Americans. — Dean Koontz

The cross symbolizes a cosmic as well as historic truth. Love conquers the world, but its victory is not an easy one. — Reinhold Niebuhr

I am convinced that climate change represents a historic opportunity on an even greater scale. — Naomi Klein

I love covering stories that have huge historic impacts. — Wolf Blitzer

Adventure is the seed of discovery. — Alex Walker

The first farmer was the first man, and all historic nobility rests on possession and use of land. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

More and more we are finding that mythology in general though greatly contorted very often has some historic base. — Michael Lake

Every great historic change has been based on nonconformity, has been bought either with the blood or with the reputation of nonconformists. — Ben Shahn

In an economy that is overleveraged to historic proportions, economic stimuli will not do the trick. — Kenneth Eade

I'm living out a childhood fantasy. Our house is in a historic district of a small town that I used to read about in storybooks. — Patty Duke

Last year in a historic move, the state of New York passed the very first cigarette fire safety standard. — Ed Markey

The guys who walk on Mars are going to be historic. — Buzz Aldrin

Nearly every historic fruit and vegetable variety once found in the United States has disappeared. — Preeti Simran Sethi

The release of 'Chinese Democracy' marks a historic moment in rock n' roll. — Irving Azoff

American power worldwide is at its historic zenith. — Zbigniew Brzezinski

Implicit in the stare of those eyes, the power of those knobbly hands, was labor's historic threat of violence against capital. — Edmund Morris

But despite historic levels of obstruction, President Obama was able to bring the economy back from the verge of a second Great Depression. — Steny Hoyer

I don't have a big thing about leaving my mark or being historic. — Fiona Apple

Get out there and see your state. Go to museums and parks and historic sites. Get yourselves some culture so that when you do leave you can take it. — Jennifer Niven

Monuments of historic achievement — Edgar Rice Burroughs

Tom Walls and his cohort are wolves in sheep's clothing who will besmirch the memory of some genuine historic figures by the next full moon. — Dionne Warwick

[It is] a historic step toward eliminating the shameful practice of racial discrimination in the selection of juries. — Thurgood Marshall

The media has become more forceful, has begun to recognize its traditional historic role and act on it, and truth is infectious. — Ron Suskind

America has entered one of its periods of historic madness, but this is the worst I can remember. — John Le Carre

Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity. — Leo Tolstoy

I think the whole, like, cultural diversity and the arty side of London is really, really great. And how it's so historic as well. — Lily Allen

The historic atmosphere was there, certainly; but the historic atmosphere, scientifically considered, was no better than a villainous miasma — Henry James

From the first, I regarded myself as under obligation to my country to preserve the faces of its historic men and mothers — Mathew Brady

Searching for wisdom in historic events requires an act of faith - a belief in the existence of recurrent patterns waiting to be discovered. — Daniel Kahneman

In science the new is an advance; but in morals, as contradicting our inner ideals and historic idols, it is ever a retrogression. — Jean Paul

It PASSED! Marriage equality in NY!! Yes!! Progress!! Thank you everyone who worked so hard on this!! A historic night! — Neil Patrick Harris

Fundamentally, legislation that is historic, that is comprehensive, that has a large number of senators supporting it is more durable. — Max Baucus

I always look forward to playing in Toronto because it's such a historic city when it comes to hockey. — Alexander Ovechkin

I've been in silly movies and romantic movies and historic movies. — Kevin Bacon

The People's' historic duty was to become a nameless herd and submit to the absolute control of a small pack of wily and vicious intellectuals. — Charles Portis

Is it better to have bronze than copper and tin separately? Is this the marker of some historic advance? — Claudia Pineiro

It's not a good idea to put fruit trees in parks," said a city official. "People throw it." Historic — Jared Farmer

Les amis de l'abc... a group which barely missed becoming historic — Victor Hugo