G. M. Trevelyan Quotes

Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out.

G. M. Trevelyan

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: historian
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: February 16, 1876 - July 21, 1962

Topics

HistoryPoliticsPeopleOutLeft

History speaks pretty clearly that the markets do better with Democrats. Republicans' ideas of what constitutes fiscal responsibility simply are not good for the stock market. Democrats have many tendencies, but one of them is to look after the workers, and actually that tends to be good for demand and good for markets.

Jeremy Grantham

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Ideas must be put to the test. That's why we make things, otherwise they would be no more than ideas. There is often a huge difference between an idea and its realisation. I've had what I thought were great ideas that just didn't work.

Andy Goldsworthy

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I do not have a sense of humor of any recognizable sort.

Tommy Lee Jones

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I loved working with Valerie. That was the most wonderful revelation to find that when we are on a set and we're playing our roles, we're like separated twins. We can almost finish each other's dialogue.

Mary Tyler Moore

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Honestly, I started playing the pause game right after the 2015 BET Hip Hop Awards cypher. That's around when pauses really started.

Joyner Lucas

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I think that a lot of people don't understand how much discrimination transgender people actually face. They think that we're just kind of saying it to put it out there and get sympathy, but that's not true at all.

Jazz Jennings

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The GOP doesn't seem particularly afraid of being perceived as blocking reform, despite efforts by the Obama White House to establish that narrative.

Timothy Noah

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In essence, the tragedy of the Warsaw Rising resulted from a systemic breakdown of the Grand Alliance.

Norman Davies

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Luckily, I was blessed to go to Stanford and a school that was primarily focused on academics, so it was a blessing.

Richard Sherman

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So if I think of something in my head I don't have to do it. If I can't do I don't do it, I do something else.

Marian McPartland

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We need not feel ashamed of flirting with the zodiac. The zodiac is well worth flirting with.

Lillian Smith

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Atheists should point out that life without God can be meaningful, moral and happy.

Julian Baggini

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