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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Emotions come first, and in the most direct sense: you first have an emotion and then have a feeling. But also first in the history of the human race, for the ability to have emotions long preceded the ability to have feelings.
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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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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 history of the human race is the history of ordinary people who have overcome their fears and accomplished extraordinary things.
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It makes me feel kind of weird, but obviously the Man Upstairs gave me something and it touches people, and I'm just so blessed.
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It's always dawnest before dark
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The wheat bought by a farmer to sow is comparatively a fixed capital to the wheat purchased by a baker to make into loaves.
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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.
