At a certain point one ceases to defend a certain view of history; one must defend history itself. — E. P. Thompson Copy Share Image
But we cannot just take this historical fact for granted. We must make it live. — Wendell Willkie Copy Share Image
The world has entered an era of the most profound and challenging change in human history. — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
“the story of liberty is a history of the limitation of a government power, not the increase of it.” — William J Federer Copy Share Image
“As a historical novelist, there is very little I like more than spending time sorting through boxes of old letters, diaries, maps,… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
When the temperamental and unconventional people are not mere plagiarists of dead eccentrics, they lack, in almost every case, thehistoric sense. — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Copy Share Image
Hip to the fact that well-behaved women rarely make history, Diane [Wilson] has already inspired a new movement of totally uncontrollable, irresistible… — Medea Benjamin Copy Share Image
I think slavery was an awful, awful period in our history, but when I look at what's become of black culture since… — Zach Braff Copy Share Image
The commonest forms of amateur natural history in the United States are probably gardening, bird watching, the maintenance of aquarium fish, and… — Marston Bates Copy Share Image
Over the years, I have studied church history as well as the contemporary church, and I noticed how rare it is for… — C. J. Mahaney Copy Share Image
“The tide of human desire, the desire for more and better, would overwhelm them. It would take control and drive events, as… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts. The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn, and Egypt, Greece, Rome,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“In political affairs illusions are usually the product of a failure to appreciate change; but such failure-usually a necessary and perhaps salutary… — Laurence Lafore Copy Share Image
We have never in human history seen a run-up in credit of the kind we have just witnessed in advanced economies since… — Alan M. Taylor Copy Share Image
“The paradox of our time in history is that we have taller buildings but shorter tempers, wider Freeways, but narrower viewpoints. We… — Bob Moorehead Copy Share Image
If one is going to offer children stories that underneath the story must be something that will inform, stimulate and guide, I… — Ben Kingsley Copy Share Image
“Fincher was the kind of Southerner who will try to address you through a web of deep and antic southernness, and who… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
“The work had its own history of struggle. Originally intended as a showpiece for pianist Nikolai Rubinstein, it was dismissed by that… — Stuart Isacoff Copy Share Image
“To be the child of a conficted or reputed witch was inherently dangerous; in one pathetic case in Lorraine a young couple… — Robin Briggs Copy Share Image
History is often the tale of small moments—chance encounters or casual decisions or sheer coincidence—that seem of little consequence at the time,… — Scott Anderson Copy Share Image
“History is full of paths and the most useful, the most rational paths for humanity is mostly empty!” — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
Anthropologists say that in every culture in history, children have played the game hide and seek. — Rob Brezsny Copy Share Image
That Krishna himself was a historical figure is indeed quite indubitable. — Rudolf Otto Copy Share Image
From men motivated by moral certitude, history teaches, no lasting good ever comes. — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
History is full of delightful reversals, where the opposite of what one predicts comes true. — Edmund Snow Carpenter Copy Share Image
Education has in America's whole history been the major hope for improving the individual and society. — Gunnar Myrdal Copy Share Image
“She turned her painted blue eyes toward the assistant and said something in French before she left.” — Nancy B. Brewer Copy Share Image
Crazy Horse saw history as integrated in the present, incorporated into daily life. — Stephen Ambrose Copy Share Image
Historic in a good sense, not historic in a sense of 'so we dropped bombs on everyone.' — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
Those who would repeat the past must control the teaching of history. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
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