Nicholson Baker Quotes
History isn't a seesaw. If you have a really bad regime on one side, the actions on the other side don't automatically become good. It doesn't work that way.
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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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I believe that architecture is fundamentally a public space where people can gather and communicate, think about the history, think about the lives of human beings, or the world.
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For most of our history, Americans enjoyed both liberty and security from foreign threats.
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The same way one tells a recipe, one tells a family history. Each one of us has our past locked inside.
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White supremacy is a very, very popular and trenchant belief in this country's history and heritage.
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People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history.
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I will try to work for greater reconciliation, cooperation and peace in North East Asia based on correct perception of history.
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We are in the midst of a momentous catastrophe of world history, of a transformation of all aspects of life and of the entire inner human being This is perhaps fortunate for the artistic person, if he is strong enough to bear the consequences, because what we need is the courage to have inner experience.
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Poetry is the elder sister of history, the mother of language, the ancestress of civilization.
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Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.
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You have Extreme and Van Halen and the history that I have with other people I played with. There are some effects that will hopefully break that stereotype.
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There comes a time in the life of every nation when it stands at the crossroads of history and must choose which way to go.
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For most of our history, no one dared to tell Americans, 'you don't build that.'
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A poem I write is not just about me; it is about national identity, not just regional but national, the history of people in relation to other people. I reach for these outward stories to make sense of my own life, and how my story intersects with a larger public history.
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In Italy, there are so many significant architectural structures in history such as the Pantheon in Rome, or the Duomo.
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Human blunders usually do more to shape history than human wickedness.
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It is only when social movements have receded into past history... that the Church with pride turns around to claim that it was she who abolished slavery, aroused the people to liberty, and emancipated woman.
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I don’t see anyone better than me. No player does things that I cannot do myself, but I see things others can’t do. There’s no more complete player than me. I’m the best player in history - in the good and the bad moments.
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It is boorish to live ungraciously: the giving is the hardest part; what does it cost to add a smile?
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I've always liked funk and rock and everything.
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When I watch a romantic comedy, I feel like they're selling something that doesn't exist. Two beautiful, but extremely unpleasant, people are terrible to each other for an hour, accidentally kiss, then decide to like each other during an extremely vague montage. That isn't how people fall in love.
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Read about some squirrelly guy who claims that he just don't believe in fighting, and I wonder how long the rest of us can count on being free.
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History isn't a seesaw. If you have a really bad regime on one side, the actions on the other side don't automatically become good. It doesn't work that way.
