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Kay overruled cautious lawyers and directed the Post

Artur Shlizinger 59 quotes

The passion for tidiness is th...

The passion for tidiness is the historian's occupational disease.

Artur Shlizinger 59 quotes

For history is to the nation a...

For history is to the nation as memory is to the individual.

Artur Shlizinger 59 quotes

Honest history is the weapon o...

Honest history is the weapon of freedom.

Artur Shlizinger 59 quotes

The use of history as therapy ...

The use of history as therapy means the corruption of history as history.

Artur Shlizinger 59 quotes

History is, indeed, an argumen...

History is, indeed, an argument without end.

Artur Shlizinger 59 quotes

Santayana's aphorism must be r...

Santayana's aphorism must be reversed: too often it is those who can remember the past who are condemned to repeat it.

Artur Shlizinger 59 quotes

Problems will always torment u...

Problems will always torment us because all important problems are insoluble: that is why they are important. The good comes from the continuing struggle to try and solve them, not from the vain hope of their solution.

Artur Shlizinger 59 quotes

There is no more dangerous thi...

There is no more dangerous thing for a democracy than a foreign policy based on presidential preventive war.

Artur Shlizinger 59 quotes

In view of the tide of religio...

In view of the tide of religiosity engulfing a once secular republic it is refreshing to be reminded by Freethinkers that free thought and skepticism are robustly in the American tradition. After all the Founding Fathers began by omitting God from the American Constitution.

Artur Shlizinger 59 quotes

What we need is a rebirth of s...

What we need is a rebirth of satire, of dissent, of irreverence, of an uncompromising insistence that phoniness is phony and platitudes are platitudinous.

Artur Shlizinger 59 quotes

Expelled from individual consc...

Expelled from individual consciousness by the rush of change, history finds its revenge by stamping the collective unconsciousness with habits and values.

Artur Shlizinger 59 quotes

For most Americans the Constit...

For most Americans the Constitution had become a hazy document, cited like the Bible on ceremonial occasions but forgotten in the daily transactions of life.

Artur Shlizinger 59 quotes

The broad liberal objective is...

The broad liberal objective is a balanced and flexible 'mixed economy,' thus seeking to occupy that middle ground between capitalism and socialism whose viability has so long been denied by both capitalists and socialists.

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Clarity in language depends on...

Clarity in language depends on clarity in thought.

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Those who are convinced they h...

Those who are convinced they have a monopoly on The Truth always feel that they are only saving the world when they slaughter the heretics.

Artur Shlizinger 59 quotes

Almost all important questions...

Almost all important questions are important precisely because they are not susceptible to quantitative answer.

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Troubles impending always seem...

Troubles impending always seem worse than troubles surmounted, but this does not prove that they really are.

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I trust that a graduate studen...

I trust that a graduate student some day will write a doctoral essay on the influence of the Munich analogy on the subsequent history of the twentieth century. Perhaps in the end he will conclude that the multitude of errors committed in the name of Munich may exceed the original error of 1938.

Artur Shlizinger 59 quotes

Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

Десять кинозвезд, которые отлично поют

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Актеры — люди творческие, но кто бы мог подумать, что некоторые из них скрывают прекрасный голос. В эпоху раннего Голливуда актеров с музыкальными способностями было немало — это считалось скорее норм...

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Расскажем, как сложилась судьба актеров, которые начинали сниматься еще в детстве.
Остаться на вершине в Голливуде удаётся не каждому, особенно если путь начался в детстве. Одни актёры теряются из-за...

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....