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• Perhaps September 11 could be called the first historic world event in the strictest sense: the impact, the explosion, the slow collapse – a gruesome reality literally took place in front of a global public.

  Jurgen Habermas

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  Tags in Historic

• Today is indeed an historic occasion when as a first chair-in-office woman I hand over to another woman chair in office, your Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, in the presence of a woman head of the Commonwealth, Her Royal Highness, Her Majesty the Queen of England.

  Kamla Persad-Bissessar

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  Tags in Historic, Majesty

• But despite historic levels of obstruction, President Obama was able to bring the economy back from the verge of a second Great Depression.

  Steny Hoyer

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  Tags in Historic, Depression

• If in previous decades large historic events drew people together and oriented them toward collective action, the recent double trend toward greater choice but less security leads the young to see their lives in more individual terms. Big events collectivize. Little events atomize.

  Arlie Russell Hochschild

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  Tags in Historic, Leads

• It’s very important that historic cities are allowed to reinvent their future.

  Zaha Hadid

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  Tags in Reinvent, Historic

• People have to be reminded that unions played a very historic role in our economy.

  Hilda Solis

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  Tags in Historic, Unions

• As a Jew, it is my historic responsibility to defend the Jewish people. I feel this responsibility for the survival of the Jewish people. We’re not going to accept any decision by anybody else about security of the State of Israel. It is our role and only our role.

  Ariel Sharon

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  Tags in Historic, Jew

• Get it out of your historic head.

  Imogen Cunningham

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  Tags in Historic

• I don’t have a big thing about leaving my mark or being historic.

  Fiona Apple

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  Tags in Thing, Leaving, Historic

• It’s not about doing over the living room of someone who has bad taste in color. This is about restoring historic buildings and instilling pride in a community, which can be done through designing new public spaces and social gathering spots.

  Genevieve Gorder

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  Tags in Historic, Building, Community

• If anyone thinks that Jews can steal into the land of their fathers, he is deceiving either himself or others. Nowhere is the coming of Jews so promptly noted as in the historic home of the Jews, for the very reason that it is the historic home.

  Theodor Herzl

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  Tags in Jews, Historic

• Fundamentally, legislation that is historic, that is comprehensive, that has a large number of senators supporting it is more durable.

  Max Baucus

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  Tags in Historic, Number, Senators, Legislation

• The Palestinians are facing a historic junction at which they will have to decide whether they want to remain stuck in a corner of extreme fundamentalism, which will cut them off from the entire world, or whether they are ready to take the necessary steps. My role is to assist in building this process.

  Ehud Olmert

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  Tags in Palestinians, Historic, Extreme, Fundamentalism

• The consequence of Mr. Bush’s and Blair’s historic lie that the reason for invading Iraq was weapons of mass destruction, is that everything is being doubted.

  Walid Jumblatt

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  Tags in Historic, Doubting

• There must be possible a fiction which, leaving sociology and case histories to the scientists, can arrive at the truth about the human condition, here and now, with all the bright magic of the fairy tale.

  Ralph Ellison

  Topics in Truth, Uncategorized

  Tags in Sociology, Historic, Scientists

• Historic changes and challenges. Breakthroughs in human knowledge and opportunity. And yet, for vast numbers across the globe, the daily realities have not altered.

  King Abdullah II

  Topics in Challenge, Opportunity

  Tags in Human, Historic, Realities, Breakthrough

• After a century of striving, after a year of debate, after a historic vote, health care reform is no longer an unmet promise. It is the law of the land.

  Barack Obama

  Topics in Country, Health

  Tags in Striving, Historic, Land, Promise

• American power worldwide is at its historic zenith.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Tags in Political, Historic