Quote by Jon Meacham
The middle class, one of the great achievements in history, is bec

The middle class, one of the great achievements in history, is becoming more of a relic than a reality. – Jon Meacham

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Given that religious faith is an intrinsic element of human experience, it is best to approach and engage the subject with a sense of history and a critical sensibility. – Jon Meacham

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Experience
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In America, now, let us – Christian, Jew, Muslim, agnostic, atheist, wiccan, whatever – fight nativism with the same strength and conviction that we fight terrorism. My faith calls on its followers to love ones enemies. A tall order, that – perhaps the tallest of all. – Jon Meacham

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Faith
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World War II ended the Great Depression with one of the great public-private industrial collaborations in the history of man. – Jon Meacham

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History
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Its very attractive to people to be a victim. Instead of having to think out the whole situation, about history and your group and what you are doing… if you begin from the point of view of being a victim, youve got it half-made. I mean intellectually. – V. S. Naipaul

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History

We are not being arrogant or complacent when we are said that our country, as a united nation, has never in its entire history, enjoyed such a confluence of encouraging possibilities. – Thabo Mbeki

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History

Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time. – Francis Bacon

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History

Whether a womans running for office or shes supporting her husband whos running for office and she gets criticised for wearing open-toed shoes or for the colour of her coat, theres just a lot of history that you bear if you are a woman who puts herself out in the political arena. – Hillary Clinton

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History

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Politics swings like a pendulum. – Ed Gillespie

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Politics

Still falls the rain — dark as the world of man, black as our loss — blind as the nineteen hundred and forty nails upon the Cross. – Dame Edith Sitwell

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Water

A professional soldier understands that war means killing people, war means maiming people, war means families left without fathers and mothers. – Norman Schwarzkopf

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War

The best things in life are unexpected — because there were no expectations. – Eli Khamarov, Surviving on Planet Reebok

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Attitude