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In the world of the present, in our time, we feel that suffering, anguish, the torments of body and soul, are greater than ever before in the history of mankind.


Eyvind Johnson


#before #body #ever #feel #greater

Each age tries to form its own conception of the past. Each age writes the history of the past anew with reference to the conditions uppermost in its own time.


Frederick Jackson Turner


#anew #conception #conditions #each #form

It avoids a self-conscious relationship to the act. We live in the most self-conscious society in the history of mankind. There are good things in that, but there are also terrible things. The worst of it is, that we find it hard to give ourselves to the cultural process.


Larry Harvey


#also #avoids #cultural #find #give

We've built the largest empire in the history of the world. It's been done over the last 50 years since World War II with very little military might, actually. It's only in rare instances like Iraq where the military comes in as a last resort.


John Perkins


#been #built #comes #done #empire

A lot of young players don't really know much about the history of the game and a lot of them are missing out on what the game is all about, especially the whole concept of sportsmanship and teamwork.


Kareem Abdul-Jabbar


#concept #especially #game #history #know

Developments in information technology and globalised media mean that the most powerful military in the history of the world can lose a war, not on the battlefield of dust and blood, but on the battlefield of world opinion.


Timothy Garton Ash


#blood #developments #dust #history #information

I did this within a philosophical framework, and a moral and legal framework. And I have been turned into a cartoon of the greatest villain in the history of lobbying.


Jack Abramoff


#cartoon #did #framework #greatest #history

When I was a graduate student, the leading spirits at Harvard were interested in the history of ideas.


M. H. Abrams


#graduate #graduate student #harvard #history #i

In the history of Wikileaks, nobody has claimed that the material being put out is not authentic.


Julian Assange


#being #claimed #history #material #nobody

I know the history of the record business so well because I followed Billie Holiday into the record studios. It was so primitive compared to the sophisticated business today.


Tony Bennett


#billie #billie holiday #business #compared #followed






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