Robert Wilkie Quotes
While I honor the soldiers in my family, and I am a student of history, the past is the past, and I do not live in the past.
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Student cartoonists as well as professionals should always be careful that they're not doing a cartoon that already has been done.
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The history of philosophy is not, like the history of the sciences, to be studied with the intellect alone. That which is receptive in us and that which impinges upon us from history is the reality of man's being, unfolding itself in thought.
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Condemn me. It does not matter. History will absolve me.
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I think one's history and past is important at a certain time in your life, especially as an artist, just to try to hone in on that.
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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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There was no United States before slavery. I am sure somebody can make some sort of argument about modern French identity and slavery and North Africa, but there simply is no American history before black people.
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The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.
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I often wonder what I will be remembered in history for. Scholar? Military hero? Builder?
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Until Eleanor Roosevelt, there was only one or two First Ladies in all of American history who made an impact, who people could even have recognized or identified. And it's really only been since Jackie Kennedy that there's been this idea that the family life of the president is such a central thing.
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If philosophy is practice, a demand to know the manner in which its history is to be studied is entailed: a theoretical attitude toward it becomes real only in the living appropriation of its contents from the texts.
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Over the course of history, the people who are not scared go into the woods and are mauled by a bear, are not going to survive.
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History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.
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Although I write to entertain, and try to keep my work free of didacticism, I do have a rather passionate belief in our need to be connected to - and to learn from - history.
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Every reality show plot pales in comparison to our history.
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The people of Egypt are an intelligent people with a glorious history who left their mark on civilization.
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Judge: a law student who marks his own examination-papers.
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The big battle at the end of DW isn't drawn from history, but it's influenced by history, certainly.
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My main goal is to become the most successful weightlifter in history.
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Our family arrived in England in 1960. At that time I thought the war was ancient history. But if I think of 15 years ago from now, that's 1990, and that seems like yesterday to me.
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When you negotiate with terrorists, you get more terror.
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Talent deserves to be honored. Hands deserve to be slapped if you do something stupid as well, but don't take it too far.
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All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible. Such people have a tendency to become drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted.
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While I honor the soldiers in my family, and I am a student of history, the past is the past, and I do not live in the past.
