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#historic

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I want to buy them, because historically these have been great engines of enrichment for the middle class, 'historically' meaning now for a good ten years. ↗


— Jim Cramer


#been #buy #class #engines #enrichment

Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled. ↗


— Michael Crichton


#avoid #been #claim #claiming #consensus

So when people go to the park this summer, they are not going to have the same quality of a visit. There is not going to be a ranger out on the trail to tell them about the important cultural and historic areas within the Olympic National Park. ↗


— Norm Dicks


#areas #cultural #go #going #historic

It was clear to me that the forms of consciousness of our inherited and acquired historical education - aesthetic consciousness and historical consciousness - presented alienated forms of our true historical being. ↗


— Hans-Georg Gadamer


#aesthetic #alienated #being #clear #consciousness

Internet TV and the move to the digital approach is quite revolutionary. TV has historically has been a broadcast medium with everybody picking from a very finite number of channels. ↗


— Bill Gates


#been #broadcast #channels #digital #everybody

Whatever an artist's personal feelings are, as soon as an artist fills a certain area on the canvas or circumscribes it, he becomes historical. He acts from or upon other artists. ↗


— Willem de Kooning


#area #artist #artists #becomes #canvas

I think that those are the things that you can uniquely do with film that are difficult to do anywhere else: they can bring a picture to life, give it a natural and historical context and make you feel that everything else is suddenly credible. ↗


— Robert Towne


#bring #context #credible #difficult #else

It's like a prehistoric reflex, you know, going out and getting the meat and bringing it back to the cave. You feel you're supposed to make it better, but more than likely she's asking you to tell her how you feel. ↗


— Fred Ward


#back #better #bringing #cave #feel

I think one of the great historical contributions of science is to weaken the hold of religion. That's a good thing. ↗


— Steven Weinberg


#contributions #good #good thing #great #historical

Historically, China is not a nation of sportsmen. We traditionally put more emphasis on being close to nature than pushing endlessly to excel. A philosophy that values tranquil contemplation of the landscape cannot easily be adapted to the Olympic slogan of 'higher, stronger, faster.' ↗


— Ai Weiwei


#being #cannot #china #close #contemplation






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