Nathaniel Philbrick Quotes
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Love can never be fully explained.
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The essential relationship across American history between black people and white people is one of exploitation and one of plunder. This is not, you know, necessarily about, you know, whether you're a good person or not or whether you see black people, you know, on the street, and you're willing to shake their hands and be polite.
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Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.
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It is well known that my husband and Lady Thatcher enjoyed a very special relationship as leaders of their respective countries during one of the most difficult and pivotal periods in modern history. Ronnie and Margaret were political soul mates, committed to freedom and resolved to end Communism.
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I never let anything stop me from doing what I want to do.
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I'm trying to find the balance and do, like, 'Spanglish' music or some songs in Spanish and others in English or do a translation.
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We never see ourselves as others see us.
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I think the tradition of well-written history hasn't been squashed out of the academic world as much in Britain as it has in the United States.
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Things are never perfect, so I never get too high about things, or get too down about things anymore.
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In fact, you couldn't give me anything to make me go back to being a teenager. Never. No, I hated it.
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I came from two harsh dictatorships, Nazi and Stalinist. I never thought of becoming a writer as such, yet in a lucid moment, I recognised what I had to do.
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Indian writers have appropriated English as an Indian language, and that gives a certain freshness to the way we write.
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Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.
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I have never been worried about the future. I will always be able to drive my own feet.
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I never thought I would actually become a professional actor. I just kept going with it. One thing led to another.
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You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit.
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In history, one gathers clues like a detective, tries to present an honest account of what most likely happened, and writes a narrative according to what we know and, where we aren't absolutely sure, what might be most likely to have happened, within the generally accepted rules of evidence and sources.
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The most frightening pages of history are those which reveal how easily conditions making a desert of the human spirit may come into existence, with the oozings away of incentive and kindliness in our natural social structure.
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I compete in a sport on an individual basis, but I have never done it for me.
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In the entire history of the human species, every tool we've invented has been to expand muscle power. All except one. The integrated circuit, the computer. That lets us use our brain power.
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Outside the walls, among others, is the Soviet Empire. It is malevolent, destructive and expanding. It has swallowed up over half a dozen countries since World War II.
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Some of the biggest movie stars in the world are essentially characters.
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It is my wish and the wishes of my people to live peaceably and quietly with you.
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I was an English major at Brown. I never enjoyed history classes.
