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Obama won the presidency on the strength of his message and the skills of the messenger. Now the talk of hope and change feels out of tune when so many Americans are out of work over-mortgaged and worried that life will be even tougher for their children.
If history philosophy and so on vanish from academic life what they leave in their wake may be a technical training facility or corporate research institute. But it will not be a university in the classical sense of the term and it would be deceptive to call it one.
Quotes By Terry Eagleton
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One side-effect of the so-called war on terror has been a crisis of...
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The British are supposed to be particularly averse to intellectuals a...
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For the liberal state to accommodate a diversity of beliefs while having few...
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Poetry is the most subtle of the literary arts and students grow more...
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Imagine someone holding forth on biology whose only knowledge of the subject...
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Cynicism and naivety lie cheek by jowl in the American imagination if the...
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With fiction you can talk about plot character and narrative whereas a...
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Irish fiction is full of secrets guilty pasts divided identities. It is no...
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It is in Rousseau's writing above all that history begins to turn from...
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The study of history and philosophy accompanied by some acquaintance with...
Quotes About History
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If I had been elected president in 1948 history would be vastly different. I...
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For most of our history Americans enjoyed both liberty and security from...
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There is nothing glorious about what our ancestors call history. It is simply...
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This is a good time to ask apologists for the Islamic regime who degrades...
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What would be the nicest thing I could say about Newt Gingrich? He may be one...
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History offers no evidence for the proposition that the assignment of women...
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In the history of America we've never had an energy plan. We don't even...
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For all history up to the end of the Cold War summit meetings were historic...
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The issue of civil rights was too much for the establishment to handle. One...
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Nixon's full term was one of the most successful in U.S. history which is...