Definition of Historic

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Definition of Historic
	Historic Alt. of Historical Related Definitions: Alt, Historical, Of

Historic Quotations

Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity.
Leo Tolstoy

There are historic situations in which refusal to defend the inheritance of a civilization, however imperfect, against tyranny and aggression may result in consequences even worse than war.
Reinhold Niebuhr

To conclude that women are unfitted to the task of our historic society seems to me the equivalent of closing male eyes to female facts.
Lyndon B. Johnson

I won't predict anything historic. But nothing is impossible.
Michael Phelps

The historic ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forces - in nature, in society, in man himself.
Leon Trotsky

I don't have a big thing about leaving my mark or being historic.
Fiona Apple

Russia will not soon become, if it ever becomes, a second copy of the United States or England - where liberal value have deep historic roots.
Vladimir Putin

America has entered one of its periods of historic madness, but this is the worst I can remember.
John Le Carre

Perhaps September 11 could be called the first historic world event in the strictest sense: the impact, the explosion, the slow collapse - a gruesome reality literally took place in front of a global public.
Jurgen Habermas

For a novelist, a given historic situation is an anthropologic laboratory in which he explores his basic question: What is human existence?
Milan Kundera

Historic Translations

historic in French is historique
historic in German is historisch
historic in Norwegian is historisk
historic in Swedish is historisk

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