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Simon Schama Quotes

The notion that religion can actually be something... attached to progressivism seems so bizarre. But all you have to say is that Abolition wouldn't have happened without it. The way in which African Americans managed to achieve a degree of self-determination was through the church.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: historian
Nationality: british
Birth: February 13, 1945

Topics

Religion Church You Achieve Say Way

You can't just become complacent or lazy, or then the decline happens.

You Lazy Become Complacent Just

I blame my work for a lot of things. I thank my work for a lot of things, too, but the trouble with being so passionately involved in work is that it becomes like a lover, like your partner, because it nourishes you.

Work Blame Partner You Trouble Your

I never thought that Trump was going to run for president, but I was very firmly on record, including in the book that I wrote before, 'Adios, America,' as saying that Republicans should stop wasting their time with these novelty candidates.

Time Book Saying Thought America

I had a dual role: designer and advocate.

Advocate Role Designer Had Dual

When a man becomes a Christian, he becomes industrious, trustworthy and prosperous. Now, if that man, when he gets all he can and saves all he can, does not give all he can, I have more hope for Judas Iscariot than for that man!

Hope Man Christian Now More Give

Every generation renews itself in its own way; there's always a reaction against whatever is standard.

Generation Way Reaction Whatever Own

It's not who's the best - it's who can take the most pain.

Steve Prefontaine

Best Pain Take Who Most

People here don't identify themselves by their sports team.

Sports People Team Here Identify

Rove and his attorneys can parse the words all they want, but it is now clear that while Rove may not have given a reporter Plame's name, he clearly identified her by telling the reporter that Joseph Wilson's wife was a CIA agent.

Louise Slaughter

Wife Words Name Now Want Clearly

My grandmother was German. She was an immigrant, and my great grandfather fought in World War I and was stationed in France.

Lisa Papademetriou

Great War World Grandfather She

We've had enough with the gun traffickers and straw purchasers who buy guns out of state and sell them out of the trunks of their cars in Chicago.

Gun Enough Chicago Out Guns Sell

I have always had the same philosophy throughout my career: work hard for your club, and if you get selected, it's because the hard work was seen by the head coach.

Work Hard Work Work Hard You Career

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