#historic

I got nice rejections explaining that historical fiction was a difficult sell. But I kept trying. ↗

— Anita Diament

#explaining #fiction #got #historical #historical fiction

I can't read historical fiction because I find the real thing so much more interesting. ↗

— Antonia Fraser

#fiction #find #historical #historical fiction #i

The historical problem of the United States is to admit that it is a multiracial and multi-ethnic nation. ↗

— Carlos Fuentes

#historical #nation #problem #states #united

The historical basis for the gap between the black middle class and underclass shows that ending discrimination, by itself, would not eradicate black poverty and dysfunction. We also need intervention to promulgate a middle-class ethic of success among the poor, while expanding opportunities for economic betterment. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#among #basis #betterment #between #black

We know that second terms have historically been marred by hubris and by scandal. ↗

— David R. Gergen

#historically #hubris #know #marred #scandal

There have been 111 Justices in the Supreme Court of the United States. Only three have been women. If she is confirmed, Solicitor General Kagan will bring the Supreme Court to an historical high-water mark, with three women concurrently serving as Justices. ↗

— Patrick Leahy

#bring #concurrently #confirmed #court #general

The trip I made to Angola to study the prehistoric contents of the gravel beds as a means of deciding the age of the deposits and their economic potential was the first time prehistory had ever been used for such a purpose. ↗

— Louis Leakey

#angola #beds #been #contents #deciding

Historically, the responsibility for voting on the debt limit has gone to the party in the majority. ↗

— Jacob Lew

#debt limit #gone #historically #limit #majority

Well, for me, really, I think it was I wanted to try and clear up some of the misperceptions that were out there and fill in some of the historical gaps. ↗

— Monica Lewinsky

#fill #gaps #historical #i #i think

This republic represents the greatest basis for that universal socialist order, the creation of which is at the present time the historic task of the International Proletariat. ↗

— Karl Liebknecht

#creation #greatest #historic #international #order