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The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings.


John F. Kennedy


#historically #inherently #oaths #open #open society

To have united the purposes of an entire Nation, is the great historical achievement of the man in whose strong hands our President has placed the fate of our people.


Gustav Krupp


#entire #entire nation #fate #great #hands

Historically, there had been many periods of Chinese Renaissance.


Hu Shih


#chinese #had #historically #many #periods

Another important historical factor is the fact that this already very simple religion was further simplified and purified by the early philosophers of ancient China. Our first great philosopher was a founder of naturalism; and our second great philosopher was an agnostic.


Hu Shih


#already #ancient #another #china #early

On the basis of biological, sociological, and historical knowledge, we should recognize that the individual self is subject to death or decay, but the sum total of individual achievement, for better or worse, lives on in the immortality of The Larger.


Hu Shih


#basis #better #biological #death #decay

Modern Armenia survived only because it was the single province controlled, and protected, by the Russian Empire. The rest of the territory within its historical borders is almost wholly devoid of ethnic Armenians.


John Shimkus


#armenia #armenians #because #borders #controlled

There's always that argument to make - that you're in better company historically if people don't understand what you're doing.


Elliott Smith


#argument #better #company #doing #historically

So always, if we look back, concern for face-to-face morality, and its modern emphasis on justice as well, have historically evolved as religious issues.


Huston Smith


#back #concern #emphasis #evolved #face-to-face

In any film there's always a historical implication.


Oliver Stone


#any #film #historical #implication

There were a lot of adventure books for boys, historical novels by Kenneth Roberts, and whatever mystery novels the alarmed librarian imagined might not corrupt an eager but innocent youth.


Peter Straub


#alarmed #books #corrupt #eager #historical






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