"There is sometimes a peculiar confusion in the……" — Barbara Amiel
"There is sometimes a peculiar confusion in the West that equates progress to whatever is recent or whatever is new, and it is time we understood that progress has nothing to do with the chronology of an idea."
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28 Quotes by Barbara Amiel
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By now it is evident that the Soviet Union must gain control of Europe to maintain its empire.
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Power is sexy, not simply in its own right, but because it inspires self-confidence in its owner and a shiver…
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If America was trying to keep the bubonic plague out of its hemisphere, Canadians would import it just to show…
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Of course the barbarians' aim of world domination has not escaped the attention of the Europeans, perhaps because unlike us…
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I have been lucky enough to have had the opportunity of travelling across this country and enduring all the classic…
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The People's Republic of China has not yet reached the military might of the Soviet Empire. It requires a little…
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When faced with the inevitable fatigue that comes with the recycling of speeches and the recycling of thoughts in a…
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In a free world there is, alas, more common crime than in a dictatorial system.
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I have got up at truly deplorable hours in the morning to confront Vancouver's Jack Webster on television because I…
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All share complicity in the destruction of that much under-rated phenomenon called liberty.
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Indeed, we Jews were at the leading edge of communist totalitarianism, one of the most murderous movements of the 20th…
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There are, of course, all sorts of other unpleasant regimes outside the walls as well - the military dictators of…
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More Chronology Quotes
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one of 31 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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History, if viewed as a repository for more than anecdote or chronology, could produce a decisive transformation in the image…
— Thomas Kuhn
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Historical chronology, human or geological, depends... upon comparable impersonal principles. If one scribes with a stylus on a plate of…
— M. King Hubbert
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The only way we can determine the true age of the earth is for God to tell us what it…
— Henry M. Morris
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No apparent, perceived, or claimed evidence in any field, including history and chronology, can be valid if it contradicts the…
— Ken Ham
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Physicists now say there is no such thing as time: everything co-exists. Chronology is entirely artificial and essentially determined by…
— W G Sebald
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A scientist is no more a collector and classifier of facts than a historian is a man who complies and…
— Peter Medawar
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History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning; its two eyes are geography and chronology.
— James A. Garfield
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Bryce Zabel and I went down the road of revising the Kennedy historical record together on the NBC seriesDark Skies.…
— Melissa Rosenberg
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We all run on two clocks. One is the outside clock, which ticks away our decades and brings us ceaselessly…
— Max Lerner
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There just isn’t a weak season of 'Breaking Bad.' There’s just superior work, a sprint toward evil that turned into…
— Hank Stuever
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Finally, I would thank, had I not lost his name and address, a gentleman in America, who has generously and…
— Virginia Woolf
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The rocks. They carry the chronology of water. All things simultaneously living and dead in your hands.
— Lidia Yuknavitch
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