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“Historically, international law lent a measure of legality to the colonial system, and allowed the West to set the rules for participation as a sovereign state on a global level. It also protected the interests of foreign investment in countries of the global South even when these were exploitative, and deprived countries of the benefits of resources situated within their territories.”

Country States Law Interest Levels Benefits Resources West Investment South International Territory Protected Sovereign Participation Deprived International Law Legality

Author:Richard A. Falk

“Historically, it appears that society has capitalized on what is at most a degree of difference between the sexes in order to institutionalize the polarization of aggression.”

Order Sex Differences Crime Degrees Aggression Polarization

Author:Freda Adler

“Historically, it is important to try to understand your adversary in order to figure out how they are thinking, what they will be doing, how they will react.”

Thinking Trying Important Order Figures Adversaries

Author:Hillary Clinton

“Historically, it is quite doubtful whether Christ ever existed at all, and if He did we do not know anything about Him.”

Ifs Knows Religion Christ Atheism Doubtful

Author:Bertrand Russell

Source: The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell

“Historically, it took a long time before the court took any women law clerks. Finally, it did, but the numbers have never matched very effectively the percentages of law graduates out of graduating classes. We have far more than we ever did before and it's continued to grow, but it isn't a nice match yet.”

Long Law Grows Numbers Class Nice Long Time Court Graduates Percentages Clerks Matched Graduating Class

Author:Sandra Day O'Connor

“Historically, it's very unusual after a change of government for the new government not to be returned.”

Government Unusual New Government

Author:George Brandis

“Historically, labor unions arose when people had gotten a taste of a different lifestyle and were willing to pay a lot more for their basic livelihood and had gotten into a fix they couldn't get out of - because they had accepted the unacceptable to begin with. Accepting something you have to form a labor union to fight after the fact only tells me that people were acting against their own best (or even good) interests for a long time. I don't see any rational, coherent explanation for this sort of behavior in humans, but it's all over the place.”

“Historically, Labour has used technology as a form of control. We would use pagers and faxes to send out messages telling people what line to take. The key learning from the Obama campaign is to use technology to empower your supporters.”

People Use Form Used Lines Technology Keys Messages Campaigns Empowering Labour Supporter Fax Obama Campaign

Author:Douglas Alexander

“Historically, large-scale global trade has served two functions: 1) the exchange of goods between willing sellers and buyers described in Econ 101 textbooks; 2) as a tool of state aggrandizement, in which the private parties are stand-ins for governmental interests.”

Two States Interest Party Willing Tools Function Trade Scales Goods Textbooks Sellers Buyers Large Scale Private Parts

Author:Charles C. Mann

“Historically, many of the great names in alpine climbing seemed to have just gone climbing as training. In fact, the model alpinist has often portrayed himself in literature as a half-crazed nonconformist, living life on the edge every moment he's sober enough to climb. It is true that amazing feats of skill and daring have been accomplished using this rather random approach. For some climbers that "life on the edge" approach may be the only way they can accomplish these feats, but there are far better methods to prepare for the challenges of alpine climbing.”

“Historically, measures initially directed at foreign nationals have subsequently been extended to citizens. What happens is foreign nationals are the easiest targets and most vulnerable targets, so they're the initial targets. But government officials, once you give them a certain kind of power over individuals, they get used to it and almost inevitably seek out ways to extend it. You will see that virtually every form of repressive government measure that has been employed in the United States against citizens started out as an antialien measure and was then extended to citizens.”

Giving Kind Individual Vulnerable

Author:David D. Cole

“Historically, more people have died of religion than cancer.”

People Died Cancer Cancer Survivor

Author:Dick Francis

Source: Straight

“Historically, most women who are powerful are seen as not being nice, even if they are.”

Ifs Powerful Nice Being Nice

Author:Kelly Cutrone

“Historically, much of the motivation for public schooling has been to stifle variety and institute social control.”

Has Beens Motivation Social Liberty Libertarian Variety Libertarianism Public School Schooling Institute Social Control

Author:Hugh Jackman

“Historically, musicians know what it is like to be outside the norm - walking the high wire without a safety net. Our experience is not so different from those who march to the beat of different drummers.”

Knows Different Walking Musician Beats Safety March Rock N Roll Norm Wire Drummer Safety Net

Author:Billy Joel

“Historically, opportunity has been afforded to a limited pool of people, excluding people of color and women. That doesn't diminish the talent or hard work of the people within that pool, but it does narrow the field of stories that have been told, and of the creative ideas and perspectives out there.”

People Doe Has Beens Ideas Hard Stories Opportunity Creative Talent Fields Color Hard Work Perspective Pool Diminish Creative Ideas

Author:Joe Robert Cole

“Historically, privacy was almost implicit, because it was hard to find and gather information. But in the digital world, whether it's digital cameras or satellites or just what you click on, we need to have more explicit rules - not just for governments but for private companies.”

World Needs Hard Government Company Information Cameras Privacy Digital Clicks Explicit Satellites Implicit Digital World Digital Cameras

Author:Bill Gates

“Historically, religion has given people another world to live in, a world more adaptive to the human spirit. As a student of world religions, I see religion as the winnower of the wisdom of the human race. Of course, not everything about these religions is wise. Their social patterns, for example - master-slave, caste, and gender relations - have been adopted from the mores of their time. But in their view of the nature of reality, there is nothing in either modernity or postmodernity that rivals them.”

People World Reality Spirit Wise Students Relation Gender Adopted Human Spirit

Author:Huston Smith

“Historically, religious groups have been most effective when they have stood apart from government and critiqued the performance of government in light of their ethical traditions. When churches become cozy with the state, they lose the capacity and the will to criticize unjust policies.”

Has Beens States Light Government Loses Church Religious Groups Policy Capacity Tradition Performances Criticize Ethical Unjust Cozy

Author:Edd Doerr

“Historically, San Franciscans have not valued street trees as much as other communities have”

Community Tree Streets Franciscans

Author:Gavin Newsom

“Historically, several policy domains, including that of foreign policy towards the US and India, budget allocations etc, have been controlled by the Pakistani military, and the civil-military divide can be said to be the most fundamental fracture in Pakistan's body politic.”

Has Beens Said Body Military Policy India Fundamentals Including Budgets Etc Controlled Divides Foreign Policy Pakistan Domain Fracture Allocation

Author:Noam Chomsky

“Historically, terrorism falls in a category different from crimes that concern a criminal court judge.”

Different Fall Crime Judging Concern Court Terrorism Criminals Categories Anti Terrorism Court Judges

Author:Jurgen Habermas

“Historically, the argument is we stole the country from the Indians. America stole the labor of African Americans for over 200 years under slavery. America took half of Mexico by force in the Mexican War. American foreign policy, the progressives say it's based on theft. Why? Because look, America is very active in the Middle East. Why? The Middle East has oil. Notice that America doesn't get involved in Haiti or Rwanda because they don't have any oil.”

War Country Policy Argument Labor Slavery African American Foreign Policy Mexican Get Involved Rwanda

Author:Dinesh D'Souza

“Historically, the best way to convert liberals is to have them move out of their parents' home, get a job, and start paying taxes.”

Way Home Jobs Moving Parent Taxes Best Way Paying Taxes Parents Home

Author:Ann Coulter

Source: If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans

“Historically, the British have always been rather wary of grand engineering projects - perhaps understandably, given that many of them have been delivered late and over budget.”

Has Beens Given Projects Late British Budgets Engineering

Author:Evan Davis

“Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled.”

Way Firsts Has Beens Matter Literature Claims Debate Refuge Consensus Scoundrels

Author:Michael Crichton

“Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled. Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you're being had. The greatest scientists in history are great precisely because they broke with the consensus.”

Way Firsts Has Beens Matter Scientist Claims Agree Debate Broke Refuge Consensus Wallets Scoundrels

Author:Michael Crichton

“Historically, the court has been the forum to which individuals can turn when they believed their constitutional rights were violated. This has been especially noteworthy in the arena of civil rights.”

Has Beens Turns Individual Rights Court Civil Rights Arena Forums Constitutional Rights

Author:Dianne Feinstein

“Historically, the East was more concerned with understanding the mind and the West was more involved in understanding matter.”

Inspirational Mind Matter Understanding Involved Concerned West East

Author:Dalai Lama

“Historically, the family has played the primary role in educating children for life, with the school providing supplemental scaffolding to the family.”

Children School Roles Primaries Providing Scaffolding Educating Children

Author:Stephen Covey

“Historically, the host nations do well in Euro 2000.”

Wells Nations Host Euro

Author:Trevor Brooking

“Historically, the idea that you take something novel and you break it has been seen as the ultimate rejection of Enlightenment values, of progress, of civilization - because how could you possibly move forward if you break technology? I think that that misses the point, that if you introduce any kind of technology, what you're introducing is a new way of living and the consequences of that new way of living for people who were enmeshed in a different way of living need to be thought through.”

People Thinking Kind Different Moving Values Break Technology Novel Progress Missing Enlightenment Consequence Ultimate Moving Forward Rejection Introducing

Author:Sheila Jasanoff

“Historically, the judicial branch has often been the sole protector of the rights of minority groups against the will of the popular majority.”

Rights Groups Majority Branches Minorities Sole Halloween Judicial Protector Minority Groups Judicial Branch

Author:Diane Watson

“Historically, the minority party in Congress votes against raising the debt limit, forcing the majority party to whip its members into casting politically painful votes in favor.”

Party Limits Members Vote Majority Congress Painful Debt Favors Minorities Casting Whips

Author:Peter Welch

“Historically, the most terrible things - war, genocide, and slavery - have resulted not from disobedience, but from obedience.”

War Peace Results History Worst Terrible Slavery Obedience Genocide Terrible Things Disobedience

Author:Howard Zinn

Source: The Zinn Reader: Writings on Disobedience and Democracy

“Historically, the new government had no money to pay for an army, so they relied on the state militias. And the states required men to have certain weapons and they specified in the law what weapons these people had to keep in their home so that when they were called to do service as militiamen, they would have them. That was the entire purpose of the Second Amendment.”

People Men States Home Government Law Purpose Certain Pay Weapons Army Amendments No Money Second Amendment Militia New Government

Author:Ruth Bader Ginsburg

“Historically, the Old Charges fall into three groups. The first comprises the two earliest versions, the Regius MS of c.1390 and the Cook MS of c.1420...The second, and largest, group begins with the Grand Lodge No. 1 MS, dated 25 December 1583, and covers all the versions datable before the formation of the premier Grand Lodge in 1717. The third group comprises manuscript and printed versions produced after 1717, the majority of which appear to have been produced as antiquarian curiosities.”

Firsts Has Beens Two Fall Three Groups Thirds Majority Curiosity Versions Cooks Printed Formation December Manuscripts Lodges

Author:John Hamill

“Historically, the rabbis are split on the question of dreams. None of them denied their power.”

Dream Denied Splits Rabbi

Author:Rodger Kamenetz

“Historically, the Republicans have been geniuses at throwing away advantages.”

Has Beens Genius Republican Advantage Throwing Throwing Away

Author:Bob Packwood

“Historically, the responsibility for voting on the debt limit has gone to the party in the majority.”

Party Responsibility Gone Limits Majority Debt Voting

Author:Jacob Lew

“Historically, the stock market is like a gambling casino with the odds in your favor. Over the long pull, stocks are given something like nine and a half to ten percent compounded per year. The banks have probably given you something in the order of four to five.”

Years Long Order Given Half Five Four Ten Percent Investing Favors Nine Gambling Odds Casinos

Author:Burton Malkiel

“Historically, the United States has had a wonderful energy policy. We're blessed with a diversity of resources. We have oil. We have gas. We have coal. We have nuclear. And renewables. And as a result, one of our biggest competitive advantages has been affordable energy. You need a strong economy and you need affordable energy to fuel that economy.”

“Historically, there are hierarchies of purity. Certain aspects of poetry are very, very pure. The lyric poem can't be anything but the lyric poem.”

Certain Pure Aspect Purity Hierarchy

Author:Vijay Seshadri

“Historically, there had been many periods of Chinese Renaissance.”

Periods Chinese Renaissance

Author:Hu Shih

“Historically, there has been a bull market in commodities every 20 or 30 years.”

Years Has Beens Commodity Bulls Bull Markets

Author:Jim Rogers

“Historically, there is a fight between the sound designer and the composer. You see them in the mixing room and they're always fighting because the composer wants the music to be heard and the sound designer wants the sound to be heard.”

Want Fighting Sound Rooms Heard Designer Composer Mixing Always Fighting

Author:Alfonso Cuaron

“Historically, things were moving in a pretty good direction until the Reagan presidency. And then it all got reversed. The Mexico City policy was instituted - the idea of wrecking the environment for this generation's profit and forgetting about our gets got firmly embedded. I'm sad to say the Clinton administration didn't turn it around and the Bush administration, well, I think they're the worst administration we've ever had, and I used to be a Republican.”

“Historically, unfortunately, race seems to be the major division that humanity has imposed on itself, a way of subdividing into smaller groups.”

Way Seems Humanity Race Groups Majors Division

Author:David Mitchell

“Historically, usury was defined as any interest whatever on an unproductive loan.Our whole banking system I have ever abhorred, I continue to abhor, and I shall die abhorring.”

Whole Dies Interest Capitalism Defined Banking Loan Banking System Unproductive Usury

Author:John Adams

“Historically, very few discoveries were made out of thin air. Most of the greatest insights depended upon the intellectual ecology in which the scientists lived. A certain critical mass of "new findings" occurred, and bright people all over the world found out about it, and several read the tea leaves the same way.”

People World Way Made Certain Found Air Findings Mass Intellectual Discovery Scientist Insight Critical Tea Ecology Thin Air Critical Mass Tea Leaves

Author:John Medina

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