5c. de Opstand en het ontstaan van een onafhankelijke Nederlandse staat

4b. de opkomst van stedelijke burgerij en de toenemende zelfstandigheid van steden

4c. het begin van staatsvorming en centralisatie

5b. het burgerlijk bestuur en de stedelijke cultuur in Nederland

6a. het streven van vorsten naar absolute macht

6b. de bijzondere plaats en de bloed van de Nederlandse Republiek

7a. rationeel optimisme en toepassing van verlicht denken

7a. het streven naar grondrechten en naar politieke invloed van de burgerij in de Franse en Bataafse revolutie

7b. ancien regime en verlicht absolutisme

7d. de democratische revoluties

8a. de industriële revolutie

8b. discussies over de sociale kwestie

8d. de opkomst van emancipatiebewegingen

8e. voortschrijdende democratisering

8f. de opkomst van politiek-maatschappelijke stromingen

9b. de totalitaire ideologieën communisme, fascisme en nationaalsocialisme

9c. de crisis van het wereldkapitalisme

9d. het voeren van 2 wereldoorlogen

9f. de Duitse bezetting van Nederland

9g. verwoestingen door massavernietigingswapens en de betrokkenheid van burgers in de oorlog

10a. de verdeling van de wereld in twee ideologische blokken en de wapenwedloop

Criminal cases require strategy, and prosecutors should attempt to prove only what can be proved.

The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.

It would be ideal if we could have an uncontrolled flow of information. But we realized you can't do that.

Turkey Hollow is a small country town in Sullivan County, a remote region of the Catskill Mountains. Surrounded by forests, it counts 10 full-time residents, has no mail service, and no cell phone reception. However, what it lacks in amenities, it compensates for in sheer natural wonder.

The whole concept of treating people with dignity and respect is a concept that isn't a business concept, it's a life concept. It's who you are at the end of the day.

We are haunted by an ideal life and it is because we have within us the beginning and the possibility of it.

The human spirit knows deep down that all lives intersect.

I think some people think I'm a smarty-pants. Some people think I'm intense, some people think I'm super-esoteric and nuts.

Our parents provided us with the essentials, then got on with their own lives. Which makes me realise that my parents were brilliant, not for what they did, but more for what they didn't do.

How does my music connect to an audience? That is just a complete mystery to me.

The right word fitly spoken is a precious rarity.

The once-unthinkable loss of the AAA rating will constitute a further hit to already fragile business and consumer confidence.

I definitely want make an impact in television. I want to make a continued and greater impact in feature films, and I want to be somebody who continues to be at the forefront of creating a wide variety of content that I could be proud of and that engages people on all levels.

No good deed goes unpunished.

Discovering Samuel Beckett in college was a big deal for me. I realized you could be very funny and very dark at the same time.

I try to be well informed. I don't know how well I do all the time, but I try nonetheless.

Stability is necessary for our future economic success.

I was a lusty kid who loved Tennessee Williams.

Where we're not wrong or where the cost of settling is so much that it is totally disproportionate to the harm or the error that we made, we're not going to settle.

The movies were custard compared to politics.

Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.

Japan is not a Western democracy. The Japanese have kept their traditions, culture and heritage, but they have joined the community of free nations.

There are so many ways to approach a character. You have to figure out the similarities between you and the character, build on them, and at the same time, blur the dissimilarities. Since you do it day in and day out, it becomes a process and a part of you.

Segregation has no place in the education system.