We are giving away the country so a few very rich people can get richer. — Virgil Goode Copy Share Image
We only store in memory images of value. To write about one's life is to live it twice, and the second time… — Patricia Hampl Copy Share Image
America has become amnesiac, a country in which forms of historical, political, and moral forgetting are not only willfully practiced but celebrated. — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
It's never pleasant to have one's unquestioning beliefs put in their historical context, as I know from experience, I can assure you. — Kingsley Amis Copy Share Image
You can't play history and you can't play historical characters. You just have to reduce it to the ordinary. — Lorraine Toussaint Copy Share Image
Anybody who is familiar with the historical data from the IRS knows that raising income tax rates will likely actually reduce federal… — Mike Pence Copy Share Image
A woman's biography - with about eight famous historical exceptions - so often turns out to be the story of a man… — Catherine Drinker Bowen Copy Share Image
Historical novels, in particular, allow us to relive the past without the neatness of history, and with all the complexity of the… — Laila Lalami Copy Share Image
“People do not ever change. The person you see later is merely the one that was hidden from you in the beginning.… — Shane K.P. O'Neill Copy Share Image
If anyone ever said biopic I would say, "It's not a biopic." We're fighting uphill against the weight of history. I was… — Don Cheadle Copy Share Image
We know the "great men" and a handful of heavily cited papers in our specialization. When there is a historical frame around… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
Risk models are a substitute for historical knowledge, because they tend to work with just three years' worth of data. But three… — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
Whether considered as a doctrine, or as an historical fact, or as a movemement, socialism, if it really remains socialism, cannotbe brought… — Pope Pius XI Copy Share Image
I do want to write about social/cultural/historical context. I'm interested in relationships, in character, but within a specific social context. Which is… — Dana Spiotta Copy Share Image
The mere notion of photography, when we introduce it into our meditation on the genesis of historical knowledge and its true value,… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
I have always made an effort to render every detail of my reality with the greatest accuracy; but I have never paid… — Lion Feuchtwanger Copy Share Image
It is not often that nations learn from the past even rarer that they draw the correct conclusions from it. For the… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
The historical relationship between Christians and Jews for most of the two thousand years of Christianity has not been good and it's… — Sam Brownback Copy Share Image
Thousands of years ago, weren't we capable of building enormous structures like the pyramids? Weren't we capable of worshiping gods, weaving, making… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
We need a program of psychosurgery for political control of our society. The purpose is physical control of the mind. Everyone who… — Jose Manuel Rodriguez Delgado Copy Share Image
The usage of the words "public" and "public sphere" betrays a multiplicity of concurrent meanings. Their origins go back to various historical… — Jurgen Habermas Copy Share Image
The constructs of the mathematical mind are at the same time free and necessary. The individual mathematician feels free to define his… — Hermann Weyl Copy Share Image
“Oh, they'll never believe a woman could solve such puzzles. They'll just assume I'm humoring you by editing it myself and allowing… — Deeanne Gist Copy Share Image
When you look back on a historical period of music, it seems so obvious to you what the characteristics of it are,… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
The library is not a shrine for the worship of books. It is not a temple where literary incense must be burned… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
Most people's historical perspective begins with the day of their birth. — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
