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Tag Name "Historical" (737)

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Historical! Must it be historical to catch your attention? Even though historicity, like notoriety, denotes nothing more than thatsomething has occurred.
Franz Grillparzer
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Historical fiction is a collaboration between the time in which it's written and the time that it's writing about and the far future, when we don't know what people are going to think about yet.
Emily Barton
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historical research of the truly scholastic kind is not connected with human beings at all. It is a pure study, like higher mathematics.
C. V. Wedgwood
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Historical judgement is not a variety of knowledge, it is knowledge itself it is the form which completely fills and exhausts the field of knowing, leaving no room for anything else.
Benedetto Croce
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HISTORICAL SLUMMING: the act of visiting locations such as diners, smokestack industrial sites, rural villageslocations where time appears to have been frozen many years backso as to experience relief when one returns back to'the present'.
Douglas Coupland
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Historical novels, in particular, allow us to relive the past without the neatness of history, and with all the complexity of the present.
Laila Lalami
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Historical methodology, as I see it, is a product of common sense applied to circumstances.
Samuel Eliot Morison
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Historical knowledge is indispensable for those who want to build a better world
Ludwig von Mises
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Historical capitalism is a materialist civilization.
Immanuel Wallerstein
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Historical fiction is not history. You're blending real events and actual historical personages with characters of your own creation.
George R. R. Martin
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Historical theology has too often failed to interpret repentance as a positive creative force. ... Essentially, if Christianity is to succeed in the next millennium, it must cease to be a negative religion and must become positive.
Robert H. Schuller
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Historical analogy is the last refuge of people who can't grasp the current situation.
Kim Stanley
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Historical research to this day remains unorganized, and the historian is expected to make his own instruments or do without them and so with wooden ploughs we continue to draw lonely furrows, most successfully when we strike sand.
Sir Lewis Bernstein Namier
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Historical hypocrites have themselves carried out the very human rights abuses that they suddenly decide warrant intervention elsewhere.
Samantha Power
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Historical truth is that, and that alone, which reveals the forces that go to mould the social life of mankind.
Ahad Ha'am
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Historical fiction of course is particularly research-heavy. The details of everyday life are there to trip you up. Things that we take for granted, indeed, hardly think about, can lead to tremendous mistakes.
Sara Sheridan
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Historical atrocities have certainly shown that dehumanizing any group is the first step toward genocide.
Robert Paul Weston
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Historical and public memory is not merely on the side of domination.
Henry Giroux
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Historical determinism is a recipe for political quietism.
Terry Eagleton
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Historical fiction is not only a respectable literary form it is a standing reminder of the fact that history is about human beings.
Helen Cam
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Historical explanation is not identical with moral judgment.
Moses Finley
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Historical awareness is a kind of resurrection.
William Least Heat-Moon
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Historical costumes from the 18th and 19th centuries look so complicated, but when you see the patterns, it's very systematic. I've always been impressed by how the patterns economize the fabric.
Olivier Theyskens
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Not only the studying and writing of history but also the honoring of it both represent affirmations of a certain defiant faith - a desperate, unreasoning faith, if you will - but faith nevertheless in the endurance of this threatened world - faith in the total essentiality of historical continuity.
George F. Kennan
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