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You must pursue this investigation of Watergate even if it leads to the president. I'm innocent. You've got to believe I'm innocent. If you don't take my job.

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Civilization is a movement and not a condition a voyage and not a harbor.

Arnold J Toynbee

Civilization is a movement and not a condition a voyage and not a harbor.

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It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.

Henry James

It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.

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The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.

Woodrow Wilson

The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.

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History is a vast early warning system.

Norman Cousins

History is a vast early warning system.

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My first love is art and I see a lot of things in an artistic way.

In my world history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought who won them and who lost them – unless there is a painting a play a song or a poem that speaks of the event.

A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece.

Wushu is a move in Chinese a physical move. An attack. Wushu is like an art.

I did this Super-8 film at art school called 'Tissues' this black comedy about a family whose father has been arrested for child molestation. I was absolutely thrilled by every inch of it and would throw my projector in the back of my car and show it to anybody who would watch it.

The great art of films does not consist of descriptive movement of face and body but in the movements of thought and soul transmitted in a kind of intense isolation.

Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide.

Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.

The idea of avant-garde art is a very suspicious thing to me the idea that poetry is new and it keeps being new the way Chevrolets every year are new.

Any work that aspires however humbly to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.

When thou art at Rome do as they do at Rome.

Rock isn't art it's the way ordinary people talk.

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Statutes authorizing unreasonable searches were the core concern of the framers of the 4th Amendment.

We therefore here in Britain stand shoulder to shoulder with our American friends in this hour of tragedy and we like them will not rest until this evil is driven from our world.

History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided.

It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.

Chaos often breeds life when order breeds habit.

A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil.

Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.

You must pursue this investigation of Watergate even if it leads to the president. I'm innocent. You've got to believe I'm innocent. If you don't take my job.

Civilization is a movement and not a condition a voyage and not a harbor.

It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.

The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.

History is a vast early warning system.