Alan Coren Quotes, Historical Quotes, Magic Quotes

Disneyworld... is a historical reconstruction as sanitised as the Kremlin's, and a future vision as uncognisant of contemporary pointers as Peter Pan's. It is a magic carpet under which everything has been swept.

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Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.

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Tags : Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes , Book Quotes , Historical Quotes

Not as tyrants have we come, but as liberators.

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A lack of the historical sense is the hereditary fault of all philosophers.

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , History Quotes , Historical Quotes

The really historical performance would talk to ghosts.

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Our aim is a democratic peace.

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For the sake of historical truth I must verify that only the Greeks, of all the adversaries who confronted us, fought with bold courage and highest disregard of death.

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A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.

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Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.

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Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Men Quotes , Historical Quotes

As the 20th century ended, there were around 120 democracies in the world - and I can assure you more are on the way.

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So our virtues lie in the interpretation of the time

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Lying Quotes , Historical Quotes

The historical sense involves a perception, not only of the pastness of the past, but of its presence

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Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Past Quotes , Historical Quotes

There's room in the world for one historical folk-rock singer to make a decent living, and I happen to be it.

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Tags : Al Stewart Quotes , Rocks Quotes , Historical Quotes

For this reason poetry is something more philosophical and more worthy of serious attention than history.

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Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Philosophical Quotes , Historical Quotes

Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men.

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Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Men Quotes , Historical Quotes

Christianity possesses the great advantage over Judaism of being represented as coming from the mouth of the first Teacher not as a statutory but as a moral religion, and as thus entering into the closest relation with reason so that, through reason, it was able of itself, without historical learning, to be spread at all times and among all peoples with the greatest trustworthiness.

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Tags : Immanuel Kant Quotes , Teacher Quotes , Historical Quotes

A crown Golden in show, is but a wreath of thorns, Bring dangers, troubles, cares, and sleepless nights To him who wears the regal diadem

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Tags : John Milton Quotes , Night Quotes , Historical Quotes

It is highly probable that the bulk of the Jew's ancestors 'never' lived in Palestine 'at all,' which witnesses the power of historical assertion over fact.

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Tags : H. G. Wells Quotes , Historical Quotes , Facts Quotes

It is no accident that the rise of so many democracies took place in a time when the world's most influential nation was itself a democracy.

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This doesn't mean abandoning our values and ideals; wherever we can, it's in our interest to help foster democracy through the diplomatic and economic resources at our disposal.

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Tags : Barack Obama Quotes , Mean Quotes , Historical Quotes