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		The history of modern culture is a history of popular entertainments evolving into art.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Andrew Hoberek
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I went back to Dallas for a little while to finish my short film 'Rusty Forkblade.' It was not the instant success I thought it was going to be. There's a false narrative that if you make a short film right after senior year, you'll be plucked out to make a feature length film, and the rest is history. I didn't do that.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Evan Daugherty
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		When I was growing up, we learned our history almost as lives of the saints. And it came as a shock, "Oh, Jefferson had slaves?" It always comes as a shock to us that elevation to the White House didn't somehow cleanse them of all their deep character flaws.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Harry Shearer
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Yes, we've seen it all before. And yes, those who do not study history are condemned to repeat it. But no, the sky is not falling - baseball is such a great game that neither the owners nor the players can kill it. After some necessary carnage, market forces will prevail.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				John Thorn
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I love people, I love studying people more than history. So whatever situation I see, then I look at, what were the people like, more than history itself.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Colin Quinn
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		It was the best first kiss in the history of first kisses. It was as sweet as sugar. And it was warm, as warm as pie. The whole world opened up and I fell inside. I don't know where I was, but I didn't care. I didn't care because the only person who mattered was there with me.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Sarah Addison Allen
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		I think you're going to find out that westerns will be coming back. It's Americana, it's part of our history, the cowboy, the cattle drive, the sheriff, the fight for law, order and justice. Justice will always prevail as far as I'm concerned.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Clayton Moore
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		India has a long history with devotional, even obsessive love, be it for a personal god or for your lover.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Elizabeth Flock
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		In schools with a history of chaos, the teacher who can keep the classroom calm becomes virtually indispensable.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Jonathan Kozol
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Today a great shot for freedom was heard. I think it stands a chance of being heard forever. It marls a turning point in the history of the Jewish people. The beginning of the return to a statues of dignity we have not known for two thousand years. Yes, today was the first step back. My battle is done. Now I turn the command over to the soldiers.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Leon Uris
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				James A. Baldwin
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I have long been interested in landscape history, and when younger and more robust I used to do much tramping of the English landscape in search of ancient field systems, drove roads, indications of prehistoric settlement.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Penelope Lively
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		Maybe Rachel was right all along. Maybe the past is past, history is history, and you just push it aside and look for the future.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Barry Lyga
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		How significant is Aristotle? Well, I wouldn’t want to exaggerate, so let me put it this way: Abandoning Aristotelianism, as the founders of modern philosophy did, was the single greatest mistake ever made in the entire history of Western thought.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Edward Feser
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I don't know why Christians keep fighting over which is better-singleness or marriage-when it seems rather obvious, both from Scripture and from Church history, that both can glorify God.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Rachel Grace Held
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		One of the most striking results of modern investigation has been the way in which several different and quite independent lines of evidence indicate that a very great event occurred about two thousand million years ago. The radio-active evidence for the age of meteorites; and the estimated time for the tidal evolution of the Moon's orbit (though this is much rougher), all agree in their testimony, and, what is far more important, the red-shift in the nebulae indicates that this date is fundamental, not merely in the history of our system, but in that of the material universe as a whole.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Henry Norris Russell