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We know that second terms have historically been marred by hubris and by scandal. — David Gergen

Los Angeles has been historically known for some great Super Bowls. — Daniel Snyder

Historically, philosophy does not have an impressive track record of answering questions about natural world in a decisive manner. — Christof Koch

Historically men have suppressed women quite effectively. They have suppressed women since the beginning of our history. — Frederick Lenz

Most male painters have historically admired the female form. It's got a lot going for it. — Stella McCartney

Historically, San Franciscans have not valued street trees as much as other communities have. — Gavin Newsom

The nourishing fruit of the historically understood contains time as a precious but tasteless seed. — Walter Benjamin

And the success of the union movement, historically, has always been to benefit all working men and women - not just people who belong to the union. — Warren Beatty

If you look historically, what creates growth and wealth is innovation and investment, and increase in scale - more customers. — Frederick W. Smith

Historically, both fear and public opinion were notoriously unconcerned about morality. — Arthur C. Clarke

Satire has been a sanctuary historically monopolized by progressives, originally used as a discreet tool against Western religious fundamentalism. — Maajid Nawaz

Historically, much of the motivation for public schooling has been to stifle variety and institute social control. — Hugh Jackman

Historically speaking, institutions are slow to change and usually resistant to any sudden moves - churches especially so. — Gene Robinson

Whatever can be noted historically can be found within history. — Martin Heidegger

Historically, absolute IQ scores have risen substantially as we've changed our environment so that more people go to school longer. — Alison Gopnik

Like it or not, what we dress in is a direct reflection of who we are personally, socially, and historically. — Leah Wilson

Historically, it's been wrong to underestimate the Chinese Communist Party's ability to keep growth going in order ... — Jim Cramer

Generosity toward the lower classes historically has never been an important part of upper-class awareness. — Michael Parenti

Historically, the most terrible things - war, genocide, and slavery - have resulted not from disobedience, but from obedience. — Howard Zinn

Black women have not historically stood in the pulpit, but that doesn't undermine the fact that they built the churches and maintain the pulpits. — Maya Angelou

Historically speaking, the presence of wheels in Unix has never precluded their reinvention. — Larry Wall

Historically courts in this country have been insulated. We do not look beyond our borders for precedents. — Sandra Day O'Connor

Sophomore records are historically really difficult. — Karen O

In modern times, dogs may be pampered, but historically, a dog's life wasn't much to bark about. Hence a dog's chance is a small chance. — Anu Garg

Historically the mainstream media has never been particularly friendly to any socially progressive ideas. — Janeane Garofalo

Historically, royal families have represented an institution. The institution is built on heritage, and is timeless in that sense. — Frederik, Crown Prince Of Denmark

Country music historically has been sort of middle-aged people's music. — John Shelton Reed

Historically, more people have died of religion than cancer. — Dick Francis

Kuwait was always historically part of Iraq. Like Nehru invading Portuguese Goa. — Frederick Forsyth

Outrageous fiscal mendacity is neither historically normal nor bipartisan. It's a modern Republican thing. — Paul Krugman

The United States is historically a nation of immigrants. — Charles B. Rangel

So you're trying to get me prepared for one of my crew dying?" "Historically speaking, humans are pretty much at a hundred percent on that. — James S.A. Corey

The Gores, I think, are a bit brighter than the Bushes, historically speaking. — Gore Vidal

Historically, most women who are powerful are seen as not being nice, even if they are. — Kelly Cutrone

The thing about not being historically a mainstream writer is that everyone feels like you're theirs: you're their friend. — Eileen Myles

You think, 'Musicals, they must always be romantic' - You'd be surprised how few of them historically have ever been romantic. — Harold Prince

historically fairy tales were women's stories, passed orally in a time when women didn't have many rights. — Nora Roberts

I suppose philosophy is historically not a woman's game, though that is changing. — Robert M. Pirsig

Pastors have historically understood their primary battle to be not the battle to build a big church, but the battle against the power of sin. — John Ortberg

The world is a very unjust, unfair place and we have to live with that. Historically, there is impunity for most crimes. — Isabel Allende

An HBCU that is not inherently revolutionary is irrelevant. — Darnell Lamont Walker

Bogging down large armies in historically complex, dangerous areas ends in disaster. — Chuck Hagel

Historically, the family has played the primary role in educating children for life, with the school providing supplemental scaffolding to the family. — Stephen Covey

Historically, the best way to convert liberals is to have them move out of their parents' home, get a job, and start paying taxes. — Ann Coulter

Historically, there had been many periods of Chinese Renaissance. — Hu Shih

Fashion, historically, is how people make statements about themselves or communicate. — Natalie Dormer

Historically, black music has influenced other cultures and other genres and created other genres. — Miguel

Historically, unfortunately, race seems to be the major division that humanity has imposed on itself, a way of subdividing into smaller groups. — David Mitchell

I want to note that, historically, the make-up of the court has changed just as elected branches have change. — Sam Brownback

We modern Marxists regard socialism as a historically brief transitional stage between feudalism and capitalism, necessary only in backward countries. — John McCarthy

Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics. — Lara St. John

The American public historically was really not part of the stock market. — Ron Chernow

Sanctions historically are quite counterproductive in the sense that if you impose sanctions on your enemy, it tends to strengthen your enemy. — Steve Hanke

Historically, the stuff of the universe goes on becoming concentrated into ever more organized forms of matter. — Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

Choreographers, historically, are born, not made - their talents drive them to it. — Robert Gottlieb

What is Medicaid all about? It's staying true to the mission: to care for people historically left behind. — Risa Lavizzo-Mourey

It is historically true that a large proportion of infidels in all ages have been persons of distinguished integrity and honor. — John Stuart Mill

Marriage has historically been in the domain of the States to regulate. — Corrine Brown

An image of thought called philosophy has been formed historically and it effectively stops people from thinking. — Gilles Deleuze

We seem historically to be more comfortable with others who are similar to us rather than different - same — John Oldham

Historically speaking, just about everything we know to be 'absolute' will eventually change due to 'new findings'. — Gary Hopkins

I remember having my tonsils out when I was fifteen and waking up crying historically but not being able to stop. That was quite strange. — Rae Morris

Watch the History Channel if you want it literal and historically perfect. — Emily Blunt

For thirty minutes I sat back and felt the glimmer of pride that historically precedes the most catastrophic falls. — Antony John

Blinded by the limits of our own imagination, historically we have found it difficult to envisage another entity with capabilities that rival our own — Margi Prideaux

Yes, violence begets more violence, but historically this has been the way of the world. — Meshell Ndegeocello

Those years were just an anomaly, historically speaking, the Commander said, just a fluke. All we've done is return things to Nature's norm. — Margaret Atwood

There's always that argument to make - that you're in better company historically if people don't understand what you're doing. — Elliott Smith

Literacy in North America has historically been focused on reading, not writing; consumption, not production. — Clive Thompson

Historically, I believe I was correct in refusing to answer their questions. — Pete Seeger

Among the songs I love best were those that I see as historically important, and helped change and develop my taste. — Seymour Stein

Poetry has historically been allied with religion and morals; it has served the purpose of penetrating the mysterious depths of things. — John Dewey

Historically, it is quite doubtful whether Christ ever existed at all, and if He did we do not know anything about Him. — Bertrand Russell

I fell through a crack for years. Historically, I am a nothing because I fit in no category. I can only be me. — Howard Hodgkin

Historically, terrorism falls in a category different from crimes that concern a criminal court judge. — Jurgen Habermas

She was living in a time when historically it was permissible to smile like that above the face of someone who had died a violent death. — Ali Smith

Historically, defense spending cuts have preceded increased international turmoil as America's global enemies sense a failure of will. — Ben Shapiro

I told myself that historically when people do too well too quickly, they are a Greek tragedy waiting to happen. — Anne Lamott

Marriage, historically, has been one of the best ways for men to assert, reproduce, and pass on their power, to retain their control. — Rebecca Traister

Historically, the rabbis are split on the question of dreams. None of them denied their power. — Rodger Kamenetz

Amazon has historically been a bully, and I don't shop there. But I love Goodreads. For the record. — Edan Lepucki

I think, historically, the term 'Thatcherism' will be seen as a compliment. — Margaret Thatcher

Art is not boosterism, it's not propaganda, and it's not spin, but that's not something that art does, and nor has it historically ever done it. — Junot Diaz

Historically, a successful life in comedy is a dream that's as equally pondered and unpursued as being an astronaut. — Artie Lange

Historically, I come from Jewish history. I had the classic upbringing in the Yeshiva, learning, learning, and more learning. — Elie Wiesel

I think NATO is a Cold War product. I think NATO historically should have shut up shop in 1990 along with the Warsaw Pact; unfortunately, it didn't. — Jeremy Corbyn

Historically, the responsibility for voting on the debt limit has gone to the party in the majority. — Jacob Lew

Writers and other artists are mostly just historians, produced by nature to describe, decipher and thus historically represent the universe. — Robert Black

Generally speaking, historically in this country, the care of a child has been thought of as female business. — Eddie Bernice Johnson

Historically, means cannot be separated from ends ... — Harold Laski

What counts as rational argumentation is as historically determined and as context-dependent, as what counts as good French. — Richard Rorty

Historically whoever advocates truth always suffers. I am just a fighter for the truth. Our truths are universal — Merve Kavakci

There's no question that jihad historically means war. — Pat Robertson

Historically, when times are bad, voters, especially in the Industrial Midwest, have turned to the Democrats. — Judy Woodruff

Open platforms historically undergo a lot of scrutiny, but there are a lot of advantages to having an open source platform from a security standpoint. — Sundar Pichai

Nature and abstract forms are both materials for art, and the choice of one or the other flows from historically changing interests. — Meyer Schapiro

To think historically is almost the same thing now as if in all ages history had been made according to theory. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Ridicule has historically proven itself a rickety fence for great ideas. — Vanna Bonta

It used to be thought that our genes were historically immutable and that it was not possible to imagine a conversation between culture and genetics. — Nicholas A. Christakis

I don't identify with anyone historically, but there are several people in the future who I am a dead ringer for. — Bill Hicks