The only thing they [government] want is better data. But data doesn't tell people someone is well educated. It's a vicious circle.… — Deborah Meier Copy Share Image
“A person who does not know the history of the last 3,000 years wanders in the darkness of ignorance, unable to make… — Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von Copy Share Image
A friend of mine once said that there were only two truly national events in the history of the United States. One… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
“So long as you are in God's hands, He will not throw you away. God cannot drop you for you to be… — Patience Johnson Copy Share Image
Every frame of a Coen brothers movie is filled with history and meaning, and the deeper you go, the deeper you get.… — Oscar Isaac Copy Share Image
Modernism', as a label, has currency in the arts, architecture, planning, landscape, politics, theology, cultural history and elsewhere. — Tom Turner Copy Share Image
For the first time in history, a private company is organizing a mission to the moon. This mission will inspire countries of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is a vulgar incredulity, which in historical matters, as well as in those of religion, finds it easier to doubt than… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
“There’s a story about the daughters of El Cielo,” I say, like I’m reciting from a history textbook. “He was Deo of… — Zoraida Córdova Copy Share Image
“History is ending because the dominator culture has led the human species into a blind alley, and as the inevitable chaostrophie approaches,… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The biggest bursts of speciation that we know about in the history of the earth are soon after great cataclysms, like the… — Rupert Sheldrake Copy Share Image
I think that anyone who comes upon a Nautilus machine suddenly will agree with me that its prototype was clearly invented at… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
There are always groups on campus that are doing amazing things. I know when I was in college, I was a student… — Opal Tometi Copy Share Image
A dangerous thesis has taken hold among many in the GOP: that it might be better to lose the '06 election and… — Larry Sabato Copy Share Image
We must not falsely teach American history in our schools. We have a law requiring state textbook oversight to guard against frauds… — Mitch Daniels Copy Share Image
“As for the third Official Reason: exposing Western Hypocrisy - how much more exposed can they be? Which decent human being on… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“There has never yet been a person in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.” — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Everything is cyclical. Historical eras go through times of intense cynicism, broken by periods of intense idealism. — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
I usually am very specific about how I engage information, how I engage people, what context I'm engaging and, above all, the… — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
Under Lenin, hardly less than under Stalin, historians harbored critical opinions at their peril. The writing, let alone the publication, of political… — Norman Davies Copy Share Image
“Do you two have history?” “We used to friends” “Used to be?” “When I left, I never wanted to see him again” — R.S. Burnett Copy Share Image
In the U.K., the history of regulation, certainly regulation of the media, is one in which, time and again, successive governments lacked… — David Puttnam Copy Share Image
“The biggest delusion of the oligarch is the thought that the authority wealth offers will outlive the society that gave it to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
No man can be a politician, except he be first a historian or a traveller; for except he can see what must… — James Harrington Copy Share Image
I think that a movie can only be an adjunct or only a supplement to books, to different points of view, to… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
History repeats itself. Liars will be liars, cheaters will be cheaters, and the person who has always been there for you, will… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I woke up one day and thought: 'I want to write a book about the history of my body.' I could justify… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“The real turning point in human history is less apt to be the day the wheel is invented or Rome falls than… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
“I am more than good enough To accomplish everything I can be, I will wake up today The history could have been… — Priscilla Koranteng Copy Share Image
When I was a teenager, I read the bible cover-to-cover, and I found the Old Testament, it's a pretty bloody history book. — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
Blacks in America want to forget about slavery - the stigma, the shame. If you can't be who you are, who can… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
A Writer says: read what I have written An historian says: listen to my lecture A critic says: listen to what I… — Gideon Haigh Copy Share Image
I have a lot of history with Dew Tour, going back to the early days in the early 2000s. Back then it… — Carey Hart Copy Share Image
Critics often point to historical issues such as slavery, upon which many Christians did act inconsistently, in an effort to invalidate Christian… — H. Wayne House Copy Share Image
Throughout history, politicians have used other people's property to buy themselves power. That is the primary achievement of the welfare state. — James Bovard Copy Share Image
“This is what floats up confusedly, pell-mell, for the year 1817, and is now forgotten. History neglects nearly all these particulars, and… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
In a lot of movies, African-Americans are either maids or slaves, but that's not all they were. We need to show that.… — Allison Schroeder Copy Share Image
“In the 40,000 year time scale we're all the same people. We're all equally primitive, give or take two or three thousand… — Gary Snyder Copy Share Image
Anytime you approach a new season of any show it's fun because you have a newfound history with these characters. — Aidan Gallagher Copy Share Image
I am struck by the fact that personal faith and political agendas are intertwined more closely now than at any other time… — David Price Copy Share Image
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