Real history is far more complex and interesting than the simplistic summaries presented in Wikipedia articles. Knowing this allows you to question… — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
That one woman is capable of loving another is an historical truth; but never yet lived one who could not listen to… — Minna Antrim Copy Share Image
“When writing the constitution for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, John Adams wrote: I must judge for myself, but how can I judge,… — John Adams Copy Share Image
When people like Glenn Beck throw around the word Nazi without taking that kind of care, they are engaging in demagoguery. I… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
“Before her escort could react, she sprinted out from their little pool of lantern-light into the darkness, her feet pounding the soft,… — Frances Hardinge Copy Share Image
People can burn archives; people can destroy evidence, but to say that history is perishable, that historical evidence is perishable, is different… — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
Journalism is not easy. It's the first rough draft. I don't think you need to wait around until you have the definitive… — Harold Evans Copy Share Image
Rebellion, in man, is the refusal to be treated as an object and to be reduced to simple historical terms. It is… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Seminary also introduced me to the historical study of Jesus and Christian origins. I learned from my professors and the readings they… — Marcus Borg Copy Share Image
Reading the Bible carefully, critically in the light of its historical circumstances, recognizing its humanity while hearing God speak through it, we… — Adam Hamilton Copy Share Image
If you read Exodus 15 carefully, it describes a storm at sea. This is the old Yahwistic source. In the retelling of… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Photography can still be used to champion activism and change. I believe this, even while standing in the cool winds of postmodernism...… — Carrie Mae Weems Copy Share Image
The Bible was written two thousand years ago. The world is a different place now. Stories that had meaning then are meaningless… — James Frey Copy Share Image
The study of the Life of Jesus has had a curious history. It set out in quest of the historical Jesus, believing… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
I'm interested in representation that falls outside of what would be socially appropriate, or acceptable, or beautiful. The world is going through… — Chitra Ganesh Copy Share Image
“Yes. Kissing. Overrated." "I could change your mind," Zach said, surprising the hell out of them both. Why would he take something… — Tracy Sumner Copy Share Image
Doctor Mengele is such a powerful character historically, as powerful as Nazism itself, so these subjects always tend to be the protagonists.… — Lucia Puenzo Copy Share Image
Somewhat by historical happenstance the five permanent members of the UN Security Council - United States, Britain, France, Russia, and China -… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
I suppose it's fair to say that I am interested in the invention of self or selves. We're all born into certain… — Sarah Jones Copy Share Image
The visual possibility of seeing the historical person (as opposed to the eternal Qur'anic man) on screen is arguably the single most… — Hamid Dabashi Copy Share Image
The linguistic and literary reality of the biblical tradition is folkloristic in essence. The concept of a benei Israel ... is a… — Thomas L. Thompson Copy Share Image
Mathematics is one of the most basic -- and most ancient -- types of knowledge. Yet the details of its historical development… — Ivor Grattan-Guinness Copy Share Image
I work really out of mythology, so often I work out of a story that has remained lodged inside somehow, or I… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
As geology is essentially a historical science, the working method of the geologist resembles that of the historian. This makes the personality… — Reinout Willem van Bemmelen Copy Share Image
The developing coherence of Asian regional thinking is reflected in a disposition to consider problems and loyalties in regional terms, and to… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
More and more clearly every day, out of biology, anthropology, sociology, history, economic analysis, psychological insight, plain human decency and common sense,… — Ordway Tead Copy Share Image
After such knowledge, what forgiveness? Think now History has many cunning passages, contrived corridors And issues, deceives with whispering ambitions Guides us… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
At the end of the first half-century of engine-driven flight, we are confronted with the stark fact that the historical significance of… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
One minute I'm exactly what Churchill described me the most powerful man in history. Now the Order's given, hell; I'm just audience… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Tomorrow, the Tripartite Pact will become an instrument of just peace between the peoples. Italians! Once more arise and be worthy of… — Benito Mussolini Copy Share Image
As president of the American Historical Association, I started a programme to make dissertations into e-books in 1999. Before I knew it,… — Robert Darnton Copy Share Image
The long-run historical tendency of capitalism has not only been to increase real incomes more or less proportionately nearly all along the… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
I don't want to be a historical action figure or treated like I'm dead. Like one of those people where they go,… — Kathleen Hanna Copy Share Image
Familiar life, tending to sordidness, had been succeeded by remote life, generally idealized; historical detail had been brought in to teach readers… — Carl Clinton Van Doren Copy Share Image
So when you consider the archetypal, historical, and cultural background of whatever you do, it gives you a sense that your occupation… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
It [the depression] was not accidental. It was a carefully contrived occurrence worked out as one works out a mathematical equation. The… — Louis Thomas McFadden Copy Share Image
If you think about how broadcast mini-series approach historical events, there is a hagiography. There has been a soft, very glossy idea… — John Landgraf Copy Share Image
Presently, the Commission for Commemorating 350 Years of American Jewish History has been brought about to encourage and sponsor a variety of… — Jon Porter Copy Share Image
I think it's important to understand that in the big historical context of things, there has been land degradation from civilisation since… — Joel Salatin Copy Share Image
Italy is full of historical buildings. And Europe holds a great history of philosophy from Greece until today. I read all those… — Tadao Ando Copy Share Image
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