#historic

True, I have raped history, but it has produced some beautiful offspring. ↗

— Alexandre Dumas

#rewriting-history #beauty

Moja je ljubav zaspala, da se ponovo probudi. ↗

— Marija Jurić Zagorka

#historical-romance

Today, energy prices are at historic highs. Some analysts estimate that energy price shocks this year could cost American consumers more than $40 billion. Speaking very frankly, we cannot afford this kind of expense. ↗

— Jeff Bingaman

#american #american consumers #billion #cannot #consumers

I think the importance of doing activist work is precisely because it allows you to give back and to consider yourself not as a single individual who may have achieved whatever but to be a part of an ongoing historical movement. ↗

— Angela Davis

#activist #allows #back #because #consider

President Kennedy understood the importance of equal pay for equal work and signed historic legislation that gave women around the country hope that one day their wages would be on par with that of their male counterparts. ↗

— Rosa DeLauro

#counterparts #country #day #equal #equal pay

The United States has long thought of itself as the land of infinite plenty, and historically we did have abundant resources. But now we are gradually exhausting our fisheries, our topsoil, our water. On top of that, we're coming to the end of world resources. ↗

— Jared Diamond

#coming #did #end #exhausting #fisheries

What I did was sit down with the Washington State officials, with the historic preservation people, with the tribe, the local community, the port of Port Angeles, and we worked this thing out, and we protected the tribe's interest. ↗

— Norm Dicks

#community #did #down #historic #i

The knife of historical relativism... which has cut to pieces all metaphysics and religion must also bring about healing. ↗

— Wilhelm Dilthey

#also #bring #cut #healing #historical

Thus, in accordance with the spirit of the Historical School, knowledge of the principles of the human world falls within that world itself, and the human sciences form an independent system. ↗

— Wilhelm Dilthey

#falls #form #historical #human #human world

I had the training at drama school where I studied Shakespeare and Brecht and Chekov and all these period historical playwrights and I think that I responded to the material. ↗

— Orlando Bloom

#drama school #had #historical #i #i think