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“It is very clear from the historical record that without British help neither Wahhabism nor the House of Saud would be in existence today. Wahhabism is a British-inspired fundamentalist movement in Islam. Through its defense of the House of Saud, the US also supports Wahhabism directly and indirectly regardless of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Wahhabism is violent, right wing, ultra-conservative, rigid, extremist, reactionary, sexist, and intolerant.”

“The reporters are needed to validate the historical record.”

Records Needed Historical Reporters

Author:Witold Walczak

“If a powerful and benevolent spirit has shaped the destiny of this world, we can better discover that destiny from the words that have gathered up the heart's desire of the world, than from historical records, or from speculation, wherein the heart withers.”

Ifs World Heart Spirit Desire Powerful Destiny Records This World Historical Speculation Benevolent

Book:The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Volume IV: Early Essays

Source: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Volume IV: Early Essays

“In individuals as in nations, contentment is silent, which tends to unbalance the historical record.”

Individual Nations Peace History Records Historical Silent Contentment

Book:A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century

Source: A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century

“The historical record suggests that the transition to to a new hegemon has always been attended by what I have elsewhere called hegemonic war.”

War Records Historical Transition Elsewhere

Book:The Political Economy of International Relations

Source: The Political Economy of International Relations

“With their own record of killing 12 million American Indians and supporting slavery for four decades after the British abolished it, Americans wish to project their historical guilt on to someone else.”

Wish History Millions Records Four Humour Projects Slavery Guilt Historical Killing British Decades American Indian

Author:Andrew Roberts

“The blues records of each decade explain something about the philosophical basis of our lives as black people. ... Blues is a basis of historical continuity for black people. It is a ritualized way of talking about ourselves and passing it on.”

People Way Black Talking Music Records Our Lives Bases Philosophical Historical Decades Passing Passings Black People Continuity Way Of Talking Passing It

Author:Sherley Anne Williams

“Given the ambiguity of religious texts and teachings, the mixed historical record, and the empirical evidence, it would be foolhardy to assert that religious faith necessarily upholds democratic values.”

Would Be Values Given Religious Records Atheism Teaching Evidence Historical Democratic Positive Atheism Religious Faith Ambiguity Foolhardy Empirical Evidence Democratic Values Religious Texts

Book:Religion and Politics in the United States

Source: Religion and Politics in the United States

“Have been reading "Genesis" several Sundays, not as a Christian reads for "spiritual consolation," "instruction," etc., not as aninfidel reads to carp and quarrel and criticize, but as one who wishes to be informed and furnished in the earliest and most wonderful of all literary productions. The literature of the Bible should be studied as one studies Shakespeare, for illustration and language, for its true pictures of man and woman nature, for its early historical record.”

“I'm a curious guy. I can't turn away from an investigative story, when it comes to the forensic analysis. I've done 33 dives, to the titanic wreck site. I've spent over 50 hours piloting robotic vehicles at that wreck trying to piece together what happened during the disaster. How the ship broke up, comparing the historical record with the forensic record. Documentaries are kind of my new life. I love documentary filmmaking.”

“To me the Mahabharata is a profoundly religious book, largely allegorical, in a way meant to be a historical record.”

Way Book Religion Religious Records Historical Meant To Be Mahabharata Religious Books

Book:Collected Works

Source: Collected Works

“History is but the record of crimes and misfortunes. L'histoire n'est que le tableau des crimes et des malheurs”

Records Crime Historical Misfortunes Tableau

Author:Voltaire

“If you're playing a historical character that's in the public consciousness, then obviously you've got to make an effort to look like that person and there's a huge amount of historical record there that you have to kind of comply to.”

Ifs Looks Kind Persons Character Effort Consciousness Records Huge Amount Historical

Author:Colm Meaney

“What I have learned from studying counterfactual history is that the law of unintended consequences always kicks in no matter how secure you are in your plan. We have to live with the historical record as it is, like it or not.”

Matter Law Study Records Plans Consequence Historical Secure Kicks I Have Learned Unintended Consequences

Author:Gavriel David Rosenfeld

“Oral history interviews allow us to document and chronicle people's stories; stories that might otherwise not be included in the historical record.”

People Stories Might Records Historical Interviews Documents Chronicles Oral History

Author:Patricia Leavy

“U.S. domestic drug policy does not carry out its stated goals, and policymakers are well aware of that. If it isn't about reducing substance abuse, what is it about? It is reasonably clear, both from current actions and the historical record, that substances tend to be criminalized when they are associated with the so-called dangerous classes, that the criminalization of certain substances is a technique of social control.”

Ifs Wells Doe Action Certain Social Goal Class Clear Records Dangerous Policy Drug Abuse Historical Currents Technique Substance Reducing Substance Abuse Social Control Drug Policy

Author:Noam Chomsky

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