“While I was pleasantly surprised by the relatively high number of jobs created in April, the fact is that job creation during this recovery period has significantly lagged both historical experience in recovery, and the projections of the Bush Administration.” FactsJobsNumbersCreationPeriodsHistoricalRecoveryAdministrationProjectionAprilJob Creation Author:Barney Frank
“Complaints about the social irresponsibility of the intellectual typically concern the intellectual's tendency to marginalize herself, to move out from one community by interior identification of herself with some other community - for example, another country or historical period... It is not clear that those who thus marginalize themselves can be criticized for social irresponsibility. One cannot be irresponsible toward a community of which one does not think of oneself as a member. Otherwise runaway slaves and tunnelers under the Berlin Wall would be irresponsible.” ThinkingDoeCountryWould BeMovingSocialCommunityClearExampleWallPeriodsMembersIntellectualConcernHistoricalSlaveOneselfTendenciesComplaintsInteriorsIrresponsibleBerlinIdentificationRunawayIrresponsibilityBerlin Wall Author:Richard Rorty
“Whenever you're trying to do a film in a genuine historical period, you do have to make sure that you get as much historically accurate as you possibly can because there are thousands of people who are wildly interested in the Civil War. If we get anything wrong, there is no doubt that we're going to hear from them.” PeopleIfsTryingWarFilmDoubtPeriodsHistoricalGenuineCivil WarNo DoubtAccurate Author:Nicholas Sparks
“I had serious training of painting styles from different historical periods... But to have all this training is not enough to be an artist. You have to add a new page to history; otherwise you are not making a contribution. But making history is not easy.” DifferentEnoughArtistEasyHistoryStylePaintingSeriousPeriodsPagesTrainingAddHistoricalContributionMaking History Author:Liu Dan
“The absence from the Dead Sea Scrolls of historical texts proper should not surprise us. Neither in the inter-Testamental period, nor in earlier biblical times, was the recording of history as we understand it a strong point among the Jews.” ShouldStrongSeaPeriodsHistoricalSurpriseJewAbsenceBiblical Author:Geza Vermes
“For me, the challenge of a period film is that, unlike a contemporary film where the character can be very free-form when it comes to the acting, there's a burden to acting in a period film because you have to stay within the character's historical background and the gestures of certain periods.” CharacterFilmFormCertainChallengesActingPeriodsHistoricalBurdenBackgroundsContemporaryGestures Author:Donnie Yen
“In some ways, I believe that we are moving into a post-historical period, for lack of a better term. A time when whatever functioned previously will cease to function, or at least will have to be re-thought and re-considered.” WayBelieveMovingI BelieveTermPeriodsFunctionHistoricalCeasePosts Author:Mark Pesce
“If the religious spirit be ever mentioned in any historical narration, we are sure to meet afterwards with a detail of the miseries which attend it. And no period of time can be happier or more prosperous, than those in which it is never regarded or heard of.” IfsSpiritReligionReligiousHeardPeriodsMiseryHistoricalDetailsProsperousNarration Book:Dialogues and Natural History of Religion Source: Dialogues and Natural History of Religion
“America has entered one of its periods of historical madness, but this is the worst I can remember: worse than McCarthyism, worse than the Bay of Pigs and in the long term potentially more disastrous than the Vietnam War.” LongI CanWarAmericaRememberTermWorstPeriodsMadnessHistoricalLong TermVietnamPigsVietnam WarMccarthyismBay Of Pigs Author:John le Carre
“The most important misunderstanding seems to me to lie in a confusion between the human necessities which I consider part of human nature, and the human necessities as they appear as drives, needs, passions, etc., in any given historical period.” NeedsHumansImportantSeemsLyingPassionGivenHuman NaturePeriodsHistoricalConfusionEtcMisunderstanding Author:Erich Fromm
“You can never really understand an individual unless you also understand the society,historical time period in which they live,personal troubles, and social issues” IndividualSocialIssuesTroublePeriodsHistoricalSocial IssuesTime Periods Author:C. Wright Mills
“I've managed to include only enough historical detail to give the "flavor" of the time period while keeping the characters and story focal.” GivingEnoughCharacterStoriesPeriodsHistoricalDetailsFlavorTime Periods Author:Julie Klassen
“When you look back on a historical period of music, it seems so obvious to you what the characteristics of it are, but they're not obvious at the time. So, when I look back at my own work, I could easily write a very convincing sort of account of it that made it look like I had planned it all out from day one and that this led logically to that and then I did this and then that followed quite naturally from that. But that's not how it felt.” WritingLooksMadeSeemsFeltMy OwnPeriodsAccountsHistoricalObviousMade ItCharacteristicsConvincing Author:Brian Eno
“Size will hurt returns. Look at Berkshire Hathaway - the last five things Warren has done have generated returns that are splendid by historical standards, but now give him $100 billion in assets and measure outcomes across all of it, it doesn't look so good. We can only buy big positions, and the only time we can get big positions is during a horrible period of decline or stasis. That really doesn't happen very often.” GivingLooksDoneBigsHappensLastsHurtFivePositionReturnPeriodsStandardsHistoricalSizeBillionsHorribleOutcomesAssetsDeclineOnly TimeSplendidStasis Author:Charlie Munger
“Everything is cyclical. Historical eras go through times of intense cynicism, broken by periods of intense idealism.” BrokenPeriodsHistoricalIntenseErasCynicismIdealismRough Times Author:Lauren Groff
“It's such an extraordinary time to be alive that you just don't want to miss it. I mean, it's a really neat historical period.” WantMeanAliveMissingPeriodsHistoricalExtraordinaryNeat Author:Juan Enriquez
“According to Marx, socialism is the first stage of communism and it covers a very long historical period in which we must practise the principle "to each according to his work" and combine the interests of the state, the collective and the individual, for only thus can we arouse people's enthusiasm for labour and develop socialist production.” PeopleFirstsLongStatesIndividualInterestPrinciplesStagePeriodsHistoricalProductionsSocialismEnthusiasmCommunismLabourCollectivesSocialistPractise Author:Deng Xiaoping