Banks lend by creating credit. They create the means of payment out of nothing. — Ralph George Hawtrey Copy Share Image
“He who writes is the martyr, seen through the eyes of the unassuming doll.” — A.K. Kuykendall Copy Share Image
Earth Day is the first holy day...and is devoted to the harmony of nature... The celebration offends no historical calendar, yet it… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
It is always self-defeating to pretend to the style of a generation younger than your own; it simply erases your own experience… — Renata Adler Copy Share Image
“The soap opera was followed by a game show: money for nothing was coming back into fashion.” — Zin Murphy Copy Share Image
“I mean to explore you thoroughly this time.” “Take heed, Captain. I’m prepared to answer all threats measure for measure.” — Sherri Browning Copy Share Image
The movement of nonviolent non-co-operation has nothing in common with the historical struggles for freedom in the West. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Historical knowledge is indispensable for those who want to build a better world — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Any theory intended to describe and analyze socio-historical reality cannot restrict itself to the human spirit and disregard the totality of human… — Wilhelm Dilthey Copy Share Image
Israel deserves special treatment from the United States, both for historical reasons and because there can be no regional peace without a… — Stephen Kinzer Copy Share Image
Everything in 'The Tudors' is initially based on my historical research, and the fact is that the most unlikely scenes were the… — Michael Hirst Copy Share Image
I did projects on Champlain coming up the St. Lawrence River and on Henry Hudson cast adrift in the bay that now… — Margaret MacMillan Copy Share Image
You know, by the time you become the leader of a country, someone else makes all the decisions. ... You may find… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
Millar Burrows of Yale observes: 'Archeology has in many cases refuted the views of modern critics. It has shown in a number… — Millar Burrows Copy Share Image
The sciences which take socio-historical reality as their subject matter are seeking, more intensively than ever before, their systematic relations to one… — Wilhelm Dilthey Copy Share Image
During World War I the Canadians were the shock troops. In many historical cases, Canadians have been very proficient at killing, and… — Joseph Boyden Copy Share Image
Modern Armenia survived only because it was the single province controlled, and protected, by the Russian Empire. The rest of the territory… — John Shimkus Copy Share Image
That does not mean we won't experience the tragedy of the loss of some American lives. We will have an opportunity to… — John McCain Copy Share Image
There is no extrahistorical or eternalist or abstractivistically pure standpoint where we can get oriented in the absolute Truth per se before… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
Size will hurt returns. Look at Berkshire Hathaway - the last five things Warren has done have generated returns that are splendid… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
What sort of power is it that really and truly renders the deity present? Human beings automatically think of God as someone… — Jon Sobrino Copy Share Image
The idea of a method that contains firm, unchanging, and absolutely binding principles for conducting the business of science meets considerable difficulty… — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
I accept the resurrection of Easter Sunday not as an invention of the community of disciples, but as a historical event. If… — Pinchas Lapide Copy Share Image
The facts which our senses present to us are socially performed in two ways: through the historical character of the object perceived… — Max Horkheimer Copy Share Image
In the present, the way benevolence is expressed is in conceptualizing the Native as a historical relic; US people have to be… — Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz Copy Share Image
We have the Annunciation, the Conception, the Birth and the Adoration, as described in the first and second chapters of Luke's gospel;… — Samuel Sharpe Copy Share Image
At the end of the day, I had to remain dedicated to historical accuracy. — Ava DuVernay Copy Share Image
There are fewer representations of black figures in the historical record. — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
