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Watch the History Channel if you want it literal and historically perfect. — Emily Blunt Copy Share Image
The chief practical use of history is to deliver us from plausible historical analogies. — James Bryce Copy Share Image
While analogies are useful, however, they can also be misleading. They smuggle in assumptions that can be wrong. — Michael Mandelbaum Copy Share Image
Historical analogy is the last refuge of people who can't grasp the current situation. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
History often resembles myth, because they are both ultimately of the same stuff. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It may be that universal history is the history of the different intonations given a handful of metaphors. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
History is principally the inaccurate narration of events which ought not to have happened. — Earnest Hooton Copy Share Image
To cite the facts of history is to fall prey to 'moral equivalence,' or 'political correctness,' or 'the error of of atheism,' or one… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I love trade magazines - any trade's magazine: by entering into what is taken for granted in a world not your own, you better… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
When the 2008 victory of Barack Obama and the defeat of grumpy old John McCain began looking, um, inevitable, I started fielding inquiries about… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
Watergate got us to think of leaders as mere mortals. America began to think of itself in a very different way - I would… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
Part of the fantasy certain pro-reform Republicans like to broadcast about Hispanics, family-oriented, churchgoing traditionalists, is that they are somehow natural conservatives, just waiting… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
The history of American higher education over the twentieth century is an extraordinary one, the story of the creation of a powerhouse set of… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
The only times during my religious instruction I remember hearing God's name invoked with any sincere conviction at all was in the oft-repeated and… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
As a general rule of thumb, Democrats do better in national elections when the year's defining issue is economic fairness, and Republicans do better… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
Computers have cut-and-paste functions. So does right-wing historical memory. — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
Empirical debunking cannot reach the deepest fear of the reactionary mind, which is that the state - that devouring leviathan - will soon swallow… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
I think that all politicians who aspire to the presidency are a little nuts, but for different reasons. What kind of person aspires to… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
Chicago's privatization mania began during Mayor Richard M. Daley's administration, which ran from 1989 to 2011. Under his successor, Rahm Emanuel, the trend has… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
I always use the analogy that when you go to a jeans store and put on a new pair of jeans, it's a pair… — Eric Bana Copy Share Image
Kanye [West] just says the funniest analogies that are so random. I should start keeping a book - in 20 years, I'll have a… — Kim Kardashian Copy Share Image
Historical analogy is the last refuge of people who can't grasp the current situation. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Calvin: Today for show and tell, I've brought a tiny miracle of nature: a single snowflake! I think we might all learn a lesson… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
For some people, getting pregnant is as easy as catching cold." And there certainly was an analogy there: Colds and babies were both caused… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
That is why the analogy of stealing does not work. With a thief, we want to know how much money he or she stole,… — Lukas Foss Copy Share Image
The nude does not simply represent the body, but relates it, by analogy, to all structures that have become part of our imaginative experience. — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
His lessons were chock-full of analogies for a variety of musical situations. Those little things were my favorites. 'No . . . that's too… — Manny Laureano Copy Share Image
Imagination runs out. But it makes sense, right? We probably just imagine things based on what we already know, and we run out of… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
Apt analogies are among the most formidable weapons of the rhetorician. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
In my photographic work I'm generally attracted to places that contain memories, history, atmospheres and stories. I'm interested in the places where people have… — Michael Kenna Copy Share Image
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