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“If you are uninterested in the unfiltered facts, keep the term "truth" from your lips.”

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Author:A.E. Samaan

“He wondered at the atrocities human kind was capable of committing. The majority of those housed below were ill, mentally or physically, not witches. Most were poor victims--the outcasts of society; or the opposite, people so blessed, others coveted their lives.”

Human Nature Injustice Mental Illness Salem Atrocity Salem Witch Trials Historical Perspective

Book:Where Bluebirds Fly

Source: Where Bluebirds Fly

“But you didn’t mention Orrigar I, the first king of the House of Chaldarina. He put an end to years of unrest and civil strife. Neither did you mention Ronnick II, the one who reformed the monetary system and forbade the Great Houses to mint their own coins, thus stabilizing our currency. At the time it saved Ximerion from going bankrupt.” “I’m sorry. I told you we weren’t big—” “It’s not that, Hemarchidas. You remembered the fighting kings, those who brought war, destruction and ephemeral glory. Or those who ended tragically. You forgot the wise administrators, those who kept the peace, those who brought prosperity. You needn’t feel embarrassed, though. So did history.” Hemarchidas looked at his friend as if he saw him for the first time. “So, all in all, Hemarchidas, I’d rather history forgot me.”

War History Peacemakers History Politics Historical Perspective

Author:Andrew Ashling

“Whether we consider hip-hop as an evolved manifestation of the Harlem Renaissance or something completely new under the sun, it clearly has moved beyond the stage of just entertaining lives to that of informing and empowering lives.”

Source: Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry

“A Jewish woman in exile in the 1930s is an antihero.”

“When ideas are detached from the media used to transmit them, they are also cut off from the historical circumstances that shape them, and it becomes difficult to perceive the changing context within which they must be viewed.”

Historical Perspective Media Studies Contextualization

Book:The Printing Press as an Agent of Change: Communications and Cultural Transformations in Early Modern Europe

Source: The Printing Press as an Agent of Change: Communications and Cultural Transformations in Early Modern Europe

“Everything has its place and time. We men of the nineteen-forties can smile at the mistakes of the nineteen-thirties, and, in turn, the men of the nineteen-fifties will laugh at the mistakes of the nineteen-forties. It is this historical perspective that shall save us.”

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Book:Between Tears and Laughter

Source: Between Tears and Laughter

“The logic of freedom of religion implies freedom to be an atheist, even though, from a historical perspective, this has not been accepted in the Muslim world.”

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Author:Tariq Ramadan

“There were some types of sanctions that happen in the public world that made my work acceptable, where someone looks at the paintings and they don't - they may go, "okay," and then look at it in a different sort of way. Instead of just looking at it as some type of wild art, they look at it in a historical perspective or context.”

World Way Looks May Art Made Different Happens Painting Perspective Type Okay Historical Acceptable Sanctions Historical Perspective

Author:Julian Schnabel

“Most people's historical perspective begins with the day of their birth.”

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Author:Rush Limbaugh

“Laugh at yourself and at life. Not in the spirit of derision or whining self-pity, but as a remedy, a miracle drug, that will ease your pain, cure your depression, and help you to put in perspective that seemingly terrible defeat... Never take yourself too seriously.”

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Author:Og Mandino

“Why would you create a movie for black people if you don't understand the history and perspective of the people you are doing it for? You need historical perspective to make sound decisions.”

People Ifs Needs Sound Black Decision Perspective Historical Black People Historical Perspective

Author:Tim Reid

“Some time ago a little-known Scottish philosopher wrote a book on what makes nations succeed and what makes them fail. The Wealth of Nations is still being read today. With the same perspicacity and with the same broad historical perspective, Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson have retackled this same question for our own times. Two centuries from now our great-great- . . . -great grandchildren will be, similarly, reading Why Nations Fail.”

“We need a program of psychosurgery for political control of our society. The purpose is physical control of the mind. Everyone who deviates from the given norm can be surgically mutilated. ... The individual may think that the most important reality is his own existence, but this is only his personal point of view. This lacks historical perspective. Man does not have the right to develop his own mind. This kind of liberal orientation has great appeal. We must electronically control the brain. Someday armies and generals will be controlled by electric stimulation of the brain.”

“A historical perspective can also help free us from the ever-present danger -- especially at danger in the social sciences -- of absolutizing a theory or method which is actually relative to the fact that we live at a given moment in time in the development of our particular culture.”

Moments Facts Helping Culture Given Social Danger Particular Theory Perspective Development Method Historical Relative Existential Moments In Time Social Science Historical Perspective

Author:Rollo May

“The line-by-line, sequential, continuous form of the printed page slowly began to lose its resonance as a metaphor of how knowledge was to be acquired and how the world was to be understood. "Knowing" the facts took on a new meaning, for it did not imply that one understood implications, background, or connections. Telegraphic discourse permitted no time for historical perspectives and gave no priority to the qualitative. To the telegraph, intelligence meant knowing of lots of things, not knowing about them.”

Source: Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

“The idea of taking what people call the 'entertainment culture' as a focus of study, including historical perspective, is not a bad idea.”

People Ideas Culture Study Focus Perspective Historical Including Entertainment Bad Ideas Historical Perspective

Author:Neil Postman

“Though my books are written from a historical perspective, I have goon so far back that I am in the realm of prehistorical speculation rather than simple historical fact to weave my stories around.”

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Author:Jean M. Auel