#historical

Countries that will not tax their elite who expect us to come in and help them serve their people are just not going to get the kind of help from us that historically they may have. ↗

— Hillary Clinton

#countries #elite #expect #get #going

America's growth historically has been fueled mostly by investment, education, productivity, innovation and immigration. The one thing that doesn't seem to have anything to do with America's growth rate is a brutal work schedule. ↗

— Fareed Zakaria

#anything #been #brutal #education #fueled

The cardinal responsibility of leadership is to identify the dominant contradiction at each point of the historical process and to work out a central line to resolve it. ↗

— Mao Zedong

#central #contradiction #dominant #each #historical

We're not leaving; we are just making sure we're not hurt too much by the level of the yen. We are stunned by the yen at 78 or 79 to the dollar, which is a historical high. The country's suffering. My duty is first to make sure Nissan gets unscathed through the turbulence to protect the company, without forgetting the fact we're a Japanese company. ↗

— Carlos Ghosn

#country #dollar #duty #fact #first

I visit English country churchyards where historical figures are buried. ↗

— Robin Gibb

#country #english #figures #historical #i

This time all the historical details and things were right. But I'd written it again in third person, and people found it dry. I decided to throw that one away. ↗

— Arthur Golden

#away #decided #details #dry #found

For a country is not merely a piece of earth; it is, above all, a compendium of social, cultural, and historical factors which begin to acquire sense and order through the process of writing. ↗

— Juan Goytisolo

#acquire #begin #country #cultural #earth

The Assembly has witnessed over the last weeks how historical truth is established; once an allegation has been repeated a few times, it is no longer an allegation, it is an established fact, even if no evidence has been brought out in order to support it. ↗

— Dag Hammarskjold

#assembly #been #brought #established #even

We repeat today that we are with the establishment of a Palestinian state on any liberated part of Palestinian land that is agreed upon by the Palestinian people, without recognizing Israel or conceding any inch of historical Palestine. ↗

— Ismail Haniyeh

#any #establishment #historical #inch #israel

Still the question remains of what actually speaks in a poem, if not subjectivity as historically constructed. ↗

— Thomas Harrison

#constructed #historically #poem #question #remains