“A set of huge marble busts stared smugly down from on high: great merchants and financiers of Styrian history, by the look… — Joe Abercrombie Copy Share Image
“Every cigar rolled by hand carries the pressure of labor, the signature of culture, and the shadow of politics.” — Sebastian Saviano Copy Share Image
If cleverness has often been a sign of decadence throughout history, the attempt to be too clever by half is an even… — Bill Kristol Copy Share Image
However, the sciences of society and of history retained their old subservient relation to metaphysics for a long time - well into… — Wilhelm Dilthey Copy Share Image
“History: a context in which the capital letters decompose, and with them, the men who imagine and cherish them.” — Emil M. Cioran Copy Share Image
I feel like I'm part of history being made. I leave Apple board meetings thinking, 'I've got to do a better job.' — Andrea Jung Copy Share Image
It's the oldest story in human existence. We've colonized someone or been colonized throughout human history. It's amazing how fast we comply… — Josh Holloway Copy Share Image
I was reading everything under the sun from music history to feminist literature to Shakespeare, which is why I'm not a complete… — Emilie Autumn Copy Share Image
For hundreds of millions of years, Sex was the most efficient method for propagating information of dubious provenance: the origins of all… — Seth Lloyd Copy Share Image
“There are few men who do not look back in secret to some period of their youth, at which a sincere and… — Sir Walter Scott Copy Share Image
“★ BOOK OF THE WEEK ★ SWITCHED FORTUNES John Rabe £7.99 Austin Macauley Making a change from the manuals and the marque… — John Rabe Copy Share Image
For me, writing a historical novel was really hard. I love history as a subject and majored in it in college. I… — Min Jin Lee Copy Share Image
Even as I pursued a doctorate in the history of ideas in my native Denmark, I realized I had neither the encyclopedic… — Anne Fortier Copy Share Image
The Bible has a human history as well as a divine inspiration. It is a history full of interest, and it is… — Frederic G. Kenyon Copy Share Image
“For example. But I cannot give you an example. It was not so much any one example, any one event, which I… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
“also review the general history of religion and how we saw a rapid acceleration of intellectual and social human progress only after… — Alan Jeskin Copy Share Image
It's really impressive what those like Messner and Walter Bonatti have done - they are a big part of the history of… — Ueli Steck Copy Share Image
And thus goes segregation which is the most far-reaching development in the history of the Negro since the enslavement of the race. — Carter G. Woodson Copy Share Image
Why is 'Game of Thrones' the most pirated show in the history of TV? Because people can't get it fast enough, that's… — Kevin Spacey Copy Share Image
“There is a simplicity to war. Attacking is the only secret. Dare- and the world yields. How quickly they forget that all… — Captain Price Copy Share Image
Stonehenge was built possibly by the Minoans. It presents one of man's first attempts to order his view of the outside world. — Stephen Gardiner Copy Share Image
In the history of extra-biblical study and research tools there has never before been a resource as useful as the Puritan Hard… — Paul Washer Copy Share Image
I don't much like Singapore. It's very big, very modern and very urbanised. As a rule, I prefer older places where you… — Philippa Gregory 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
“In the parlance of economics, Julien has said to Pari that if she cut off the supply of attention, perhaps the demands… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“Boys forget what their country means by just reading 'The Land of the Free' in history books. Then they get to be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“From that historically brief quite opaque moment, came the chaos of our material history, an anarchy of chronology, of mismatched remnants that… — China Miéville Copy Share Image
There was a long history of people believing there was life on Venus. It was about the same size as Earth. It… — David Grinspoon Copy Share Image
“Never be afraid of being yourself. Be different; be unique; be a mystery. Always remember that unique people are the ones who… — Mouloud Benzadi Copy Share Image
I read more and more and I came across this character, Caroline Weldon. Sometimes in history, you find these people that no… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
In the whole history of this country, we have probably won more friends from the power of our example than from the… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
Where race is involved, there is a pronounced and proven tendency in the United States for the majority culture to willfully misremember… — Taylor Branch Copy Share Image
I have learned more [from Balzac] than from all the professional historians, economists, and statisticians put together. — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
For, strictly considered, what is all Knowledge too but recorded Experience, and a product of History; of which, therefore, Reasoning and Belief,… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
“History, largely experienced previously as a series of natural disasters, could now be seen as a movement in which everyone could potentially… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
You learn history in school, and you have a reverential feeling toward it. But by being irreverent, it feels current. — Benjamin Walker Copy Share Image
The history of Germany is not the history of a nation, but of a race. It has little unity, therefore; it is… — Bayard Taylor Copy Share Image
I was the highest-paid street performer, probably, in the history of Chicago. I was making like $800 a day. — R. Kelly Copy Share Image
History shows fans want consolidation; you see it across the web every place. The big players are people like Google, Amazon, eBay,… — Irving Azoff Copy Share Image
I believe that when it comes to the creation of Sankalp Patra, India in its history has never seen such participation of… — Rajnath Singh Copy Share Image
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