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All societies are historical.

Raymond Queneau

French Poet

Born: Feb 21, 1903

Died: Oct 25, 1976

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The historical evidence shows that shareholders usually greatly benefit from mergers. Stephen Moore

Benefit Evidence Shareholders Mergers Historical Greatly Shows

I'm very proud to be black, but black is not all I am. That's my cultural historical background, my genetic makeup, but it's not all of who I am nor is it the basis from which I answer every question. Denzel Washington

Black Every Background Genetic Answer Makeup Proud Am Nor Cultural Question Historical Very Which Who Basis

I think the importance of doing activist work is precisely because it allows you to give back and to consider yourself not as a single individual who may have achieved whatever but to be a part of an ongoing historical movement. Angela Davis

Work You Yourself Single Whatever Think Consider Back Give Ongoing Individual Part Importance Because Single Individual Doing Historical Precisely May Achieved Movement Who Activist

Love is understood, in a historical way, as one of the great human vocations - but its counterspell has always been infidelity. This terrible, terrible betrayal that can tear apart not only another person, not only oneself, but whole families. Junot Diaz

It's a historical phenomenon that in 250 years, a nation could move from a colony into the most prosperous nation of the world and the leader of the world. It is indeed an achievement, a tribute to the talent of the American nation, the American people and an optimal political and economic system. Vladimir Putin

Achievement People World Political Leader Nation Indeed System Tribute Economic Colony Could Economic System Talent Prosperous Most Years Historical Optimal American Move American People Phenomenon

For Africa to me... is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place. Maya Angelou

'Easter' is a movable event, calculated by the relative positions of sun and moon, an impossible way of fixing year by year the anniversary of a historical event, but a very natural and indeed inevitable way of calculating a solar festival. These changing dates do not point to the history of a man, but to the hero of a solar myth. Annie Besant

History Man Natural Impossible Hero Solar Moon Myth Inevitable Year Positions Changing Relative Way Indeed Sun Easter Dates Point Anniversary Calculated Calculating Historical Very Festival Fixing Movable The History Of Event

The cardinal responsibility of leadership is to identify the dominant contradiction at each point of the historical process and to work out a central line to resolve it. Mao Zedong

Work Leadership Responsibility Resolve Out Point Identify Line Historical Dominant Contradiction Process Central Work Out Each Cardinal

The historical experience of socialist countries has sadly demonstrated that collectivism does not do away with alienation but rather increases it, adding to it a lack of basic necessities and economic inefficiency. Pope John Paul II

Experience Increases Adding Alienation Collectivism Rather Economic Countries Sadly Inefficiency Does Historical Lack Socialist Away Basic Necessities

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