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There is nothing glorious about what our ancestors call history. It is simply a succession of mistakes, intolerances and violations.
For most of our history, Americans enjoyed both liberty and security from foreign threats.
Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.
While history never repeats itself, political patterns do.
I feel like I’m part of history being made. I leave Apple board meetings thinking, ‘I’ve got to do a better job.’
Great men are usually the products of their times and one of the men developed by these times takes rank with the greatest railroad leaders in history.
If we got into a situation where people start burning our records, then bring it on. That’s the whole point. The gloaming has begun. We’re in the darkness. This has happened before. Go read some history.
The history of Wall Street is inseparable from New York.
Film is the manipulative medium par excellence. When you think back on the history of film and the 20th century, you see the propaganda that’s been made. So there are moral demands on the director to treat the spectators as seriously as he or she takes himself and not to see them merely as victims that can be manipulated to whatever ends they have.
At an incredibly divisive point in pop history, Donna Summer managed to create an undeniable across-the-board experience of mass pleasure – after ‘Bad Girls,’ nobody ever tried claiming disco sucked again. It set the template for what Michael Jackson would do a few months later with ‘Off The Wall.’