Alan Brinkley Quotes
It should not be in the book for titillating purposes or settling scores. It should be in the book because of its significance to our recent history.
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I have a lot of breast cancer history on my mother's side of the family.
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I'm resigned to the fact that the corseted history of America is not as exciting as that of Britain.
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No one should be left to suffer alone.
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NASA projects often have romantic names that link into a long history of exploration and adventure: Atlantis and Discovery, for example.
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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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The illusion is that most of my work is simply about past events: a point in history and nothing else.
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In this decisive hour of our national history, union means life and division means death.
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The biggest battles in human history can only ever be seen through the eyes of the bloke on the front line, and that's by definition a very focused view and one that will vary from individual to individual.
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With my history of concussions, the WWE wants to protect me, so I've had to take a lot of neurological testing.
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Most of the best music in American history was made by people with no options.
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If you could have imagined that someone is happy that Obama is president, it has to be Jimmy Carter because he is no longer the worst president in our history.
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The United States has written the white history of the United States. It now needs to write the black, Latino, Indian, Asian and Caribbean history of the United States.
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Whosoever, in writing a modern history, shall follow truth too near the heels, it may happily strike out his teeth.
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We are proud of the history of our country; we learned it in school and have grown up hearing of freedom, justice and human rights.
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History repeats itself. So you might wanna pay attention.
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Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.
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The Constitution of the United States, like all systems of government which are permanent, had its origin in the history and necessities of the people through whose instrumentality and for whose benefit it was formed.
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There have been actresses who transitioned and nobody knew. But for me, with everybody knowing my history, it will be harder. I'm sure there are some great scripts calling for an ultra-glamorous woman. And I'm prepared to be ultra-glamorous.
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To all of you who served in Iraq, we saw your heroism in pushing out a dictator whose brutality must be condemned, never praised. In defeating an insurgency. In giving the Iraqi people a chance. And no matter what has happened since, your valor in the deserts, in fierce urban combat, will be honored in the annals of military history.
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Many spend their time berating practitioners for not applying their method. We all need to disseminate our ideas, but most of our time should be spent applying and improving our methods, not selling them. The best way to sell a mouse trap is to display some trapped mice.
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All the wrong people remember Vietnam. I think all the people who remember it should forget it, and all the people who forgot it should remember it.
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I am not convinced the Clean Air Act was ever intended to regulate or classify as a dangerous pollutant something as basic and ubiquitous in our atmosphere as carbon dioxide.
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My fans like a certain quality and a certain level of music. Once I give it to them, they seem pretty happy.
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It should not be in the book for titillating purposes or settling scores. It should be in the book because of its significance to our recent history.
