Historically, individuals possessed of the CONFIDENCE that privilege and good FORTUNE bestow have OFTEN proved conspicuous reformers: THINK only of Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Countries that will not tax their elite who expect US to come in and HELP them serve their PEOPLE are just not GOING to get the KIND of help from us that historically they may have.

Historically, we have always SEEN reversion to the MEAN. After stocks have had an unusually great 10 or 20 years, they typically TURN in subpar results over the next 10 or 20, and after bad 10- to 20-year stretches, the next 10 to 20 TEND to be above AVERAGE.

Lower oil PRICES won't, by themselves, topple the mullahs in Iran. But it's significant that, historically, when oil prices have been low, Iranian reformers have been ascendant and RADICALS relatively subdued, and vice versa when prices have been HIGH.

Historically, HOLLYWOOD COMEDY has arrived in skinny ENVELOPES. From fence POST Buster Keaton to herky-jerky Jerry Lewis to wiry nerve-bundle Woody Allen to hung-loose Richard Pryor to whippy contortionist Jim Carrey, its comics and clowns have tended to be sliced THIN and bendable.

If you look back HISTORICALLY, ADMITTEDLY a LONG time ago, there were three Afghan wars in which Britain didn't EVEN come a good second. In more recent years the RUSSIANS were there with 120,000 men for ten years.

Voting Liberal is a non-THING. HISTORICALLY, it might be a good idea to have a Conservative GOVERNMENT, because change is a good thing. But I don't know that I COULD BRING myself to vote Tory.

Historically, gold has ALWAYS been a SAFE haven against INFLATION and a safe haven in TIMES of POLITICAL instability.

Art is not boosterism, it's not propaganda, and it's not spin, but that's not SOMETHING that art does, and nor has it historically EVER DONE it.

Historically, terrorism FALLS in a CATEGORY DIFFERENT from CRIMES that concern a CRIMINAL court judge.

I THINK a LOT of things are shoved in our FACE, politically and HISTORICALLY, for MONEY, and that's the motive.

The texture my hair, my SKIN tone; it does WORK, you don't have to change. But HISTORICALLY we've seen FASHION try to change that: straighten your hair, thrown on a super straight silky wig, LIGHTEN your skin tone.

Historically, the NOTES of scale SYSTEMS anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.

And HISTORICALLY the owners have USED loyalty to a team or a city to hold PLAYERS as opposed to always PAYING their WORTH.

Health care historically has been a very siloed field that's organized around MEDICAL specialties - urology, cardiac surgery, and so FORTH - and around the supply of these specialty services. The patient is the ping-pong BALL that moves from SERVICE to service.