Quote by Jon Meacham
World War II ended the Great Depression with one of the great publ

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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The problem for those who assert biblical authority in support of traditional definitions of marriage is that one could, with equal validity, assert that the lending of money or certain kinds of haircuts are forbidden by God, or that slavery and the subjugation of women are authorized by the Lord. – Jon Meacham

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Marriage
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Once the cry and the cause of a generation of progressives to make America safer, fairer and cleaner, regulation is now a dirty word in our politics. Even Democrats are quick to talk about cutting regulations Republicans hate them with – how to put it? – evangelical fervor. – Jon Meacham

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Politics
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As crucial as religion has been and is to the life of the nation, Americas unifying force has never been a specific faith, but a commitment to freedom – not least freedom of conscience. – Jon Meacham

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Faith
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But, its because we have a harder way to succeed in life as Serbs because of the past that we had and because of the history that we had. We have to dig deeper and we have to do much more in order to be seen and to be spotted. – Novak Djokovic

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History

I am privileged to be a citizen of the single greatest society in all of human history. – Marco Rubio

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History

It is part of my creed that the only poetry is history, could we tell it right. – Thomas Carlyle

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History

A handful of works in history have had a direct impact on social policy: one or two works of Dickens, some of Zola, Uncle Toms Cabin and, in modern drama, Larry Kramers The Normal Heart. – Tony Kushner

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History

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I think that we should be men first, and subjects afterward. It is not so desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right. – Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849

Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teachers help. – Bodhidharma

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teacher

My favorite color… the seam of a desert horizon. – Eileen Tabios

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I have heard show business characterized as a refuge for childlike persons in flight from all things harsh and real. – Carroll OConnor

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