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Political history
«No matter how thoroughly and searchingly we may have scrutinized works of literature from the historical and biographical point of view, we must be able to tell good from bad, the first-rate from the second-rate. We shall otherwise not write literary criticism at all, but merely social or political history as reflected in literary texts, or psychological case histories from past eras.»
Author: Edmund Wilson
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all but, biographical, eras, first rate, historical, Histories, literary, literary criticism, literary work, point of view, Political history, psychological, reflected, scrutinize, scrutinized, scrutinizing, searchingly, second rate, texts
«Events are the ephemera of history; they pass across its stage like fireflies, hardly glimpsed before they settle back into darkness and as often as not into oblivion. Every event, however brief, has to be sure a contribution to make, lights up some dark corner or even some wide vista of history. Nor it it only political history which benefits most, for every historical landscape--political, economic, social, even geographical--is illumined by the intermittent flare of the event.»
Author: Fernand Braudel
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benefits, contribution, ephemera, fireflies, firefly, flare, flares, flare up, geographical, glimpsed, historical, illumine, illumined, illumines, intermittent, landscape, oblivion, pass across, Political history, settle, social event, to be sure, vista, vistas
«Biographical history, as taught in our public schools, is still largely a history of boneheads: ridiculous kings and queens, paranoid political leaders, compulsive voyagers, ignorant generals - the flotsam and jetsam of historical currents. The men who radically altered history, the great scientists and mathematicians, are seldom mentioned, if at all.»
Author: Martin Gardner
(Calligrapher, Mathematician, Scientist)
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altered, biographical, compulsive, currents, flotsam, generals, General Public, historical, jetsam, Kings and Queens, King and Queen, largely, mentioned, paranoid, paranoids, Political history, political leader, public schools, Queens, radically, scientists, voyager, voyagers
«Political history is largely an account of mass violence and of the expenditure of vast resources to cope with mythical fears and hopes»
Author: Murray Edelman
| About:
Fear,
History,
Hope,
Politics,
Violence
| Keywords:
an account, cope, cope with, expenditure, largely, mythical, mythical being, Political history
«It is ironic that the United States should have been founded by intellectuals, for throughout most of our political history, the intellectual has been for the most part either an outsider, a servant or a scapegoat.»
Author: Richard Hofstadter
| About:
Intelligence
| Keywords:
for the most part, intellectuals, ironic, outsider, outsiders, Political history, scapegoat, scapegoats
«History bears out the proposition that political revolutions have always been preceded by social and religious revolutions. Social reform in India has few friends and many critics.»
«History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom»
Author: Milton Friedman
(Economist)
| About:
Capitalism
| Keywords:
capitalism, Political freedom, Political history, suggests
«All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.»
Author: Moliere
(Actor, Playwright, Writer)
| About:
Dancing,
Leadership,
Mankind
| Keywords:
arisen, blundered, blundering, blunders, dancing, failures, fill, Great Books, ills, lack, leaders, mankind, misfortunes, political, Political history, political leader, skill, The History, tragic
«Sooner I'd try to change history than turn political, than try convincing others to write letters or to vote or to march or to do something they didn't already feel like doing»
Author: Richard Bach
(Writer)
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convincing, feel like, letters, march, political, Political history, sooner, vote