“To sum up, historical experience suggests that the principal mechanism for convergence at the international as well as the domestic level is… — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
“A good lawyer has a grasp of what yesterday teaches us about today and tomorrow, and knows that the real meaning of… — Sol M. Linowitz Copy Share Image
“A lot of people pray for power, house, financial breakthrough, wealth etc. But only few ask God for wisdom. There are so… — Patience Johnson Copy Share Image
A historian is not always a prophet facing backwards, but a journalist is always someone who afterwards knew everything beforehand. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
“When you are born--what you are born into, the place, the history of the place, how that history mates with your own--… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Kate Forsyth’s Bitter Greens is an enthralling concoction of history and magic, an absorbing, richly detailed, and heart-wrenching reimagining of a timeless… — Jennifer Chiaverini Copy Share Image
There's a long history and a pattern of Black athletes - and Black people, period - being told to shut up and… — Jemele Hill Copy Share Image
Sheikh Rahman had a doctorate in Islamic jurisprudence from al-Azhar University in Cairo, the Harvard of Islamic thought. He also had a… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
Your gonna have fun staying with us. He paused with something more to say, but didn't seem like he knew how to.… — Jade Copy Share Image
“This happened back east of course. I've heard that term a lot since coming to this part of the country. But I… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
The academic mind can eat away the very basis of its own assurance ... produce contortions when it tries to bend over… — Herbert Butterfield Copy Share Image
Congresswoman Haaland is a fierce leader, and I look forward to watching her make history as the first Native American cabinet secretary,… — Ben Ray Lujan Copy Share Image
“Interestingly, the historic case of 1868 in England that first defined obscenity-known among lawyers as the Hicklin decision- evolved out of the… — Gay Talese Copy Share Image
The Self doesn't live forever in time, it lives in the timeless present prior to time, prior to history, change, succession. The… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
Coming up in the Bay Area and being African American in a city that has a history of complex issues of violent… — Ryan Coogler Copy Share Image
History is not merely a procession of people in fancy dress fighting wars. It is crucially the story of man's evolution from… — Ann Widdecombe Copy Share Image
What is the history of mighty kingdoms and nations, but a detail of the ravages and cruelties of the powerful over the… — Abigail Adams Copy Share Image
Angels, demons, sex. Heaven, hell, war. Blood and royalty, history and magic, fire and ice. And a story you cannot put down.… — Stephen Graham Jones Copy Share Image
Confederate monuments belong in museums where we can study and reflect on that terrible history, not in places of honor across our… — Stacey Abrams Copy Share Image
It's not a ladder we're climbing, it's literature we're producing. . . . We cannot possibly leave it to history as a… — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
In history the way of annihilation is invariably prepared by inward degeneration, by decrease of life. Only then can a shock from… — Jacob Burckhardt Copy Share Image
It was an embarrassment for me to be there, and for somebody to celebrate it, oh my God. I want to go… — James Meredith Copy Share Image
We have this historic problem that we have a quarter of our population, the people of Quebec, who have never signed on… — Jack Layton Copy Share Image
The cause of the WPK is a sacred historic cause for fully realizing the independence of the masses of the people, the… — Kim Jong-un Copy Share Image
Jiu-jitsu has a really long and rich history in MMA, but compared to the past, jiu-jitsu is not as important as it… — Alexander Volkov Copy Share Image
“the Devil is the world’s first revolutionary, and the Devil is the most significant person in the whole of history. The whole… — Osho Copy Share Image
I have not been an easygoing guy. I think it's called bipolar manic depression. I've got a rich history of that in… — Ben Stiller Copy Share Image
“Damn you all. You have no idea what you're heading into. This world you take to be 'the' world will die, and… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
In fact, in the history of a lot of cultures there is a theater. For example, there are the theaters in Java,… — Michelle Stuart Copy Share Image
And my interest in history was, and remains, very strong: what I wanted was to understand certain things better by understanding them… — Peter Gay Copy Share Image
I would like people to pay attention to the idea of rational empathy, and that as a society, we are walking down… — Chris Kluwe Copy Share Image
As German players we have something special inside us, because of our football history. We know we have to win, it is… — Michael Ballack Copy Share Image
When the great history of trouble is written, my family will stand extremely high in the table of contents. — Allan Sherman Copy Share Image
Jewish persecution is a historical memory of the present generation and people fear it in the present day, and that's why those… — Gregg Easterbrook Copy Share Image
“Hindsight’s a wonderful thing,” Klara said. “If we all had it there would be no history to write about.” — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
“[in] the whole of world history there is always only one really significant hour--the present ... [I]f you want to find eternity,… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Throughout human history, countries rise and fall. But not America-we continue to rise and rise, like dough, until Jesus bakes us in… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
What really disconcerts commentators, I suspect, is that when they read historical fiction, they feel their own lack of education may be… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
There's a big mistake that people make with history, which is to think that people in the past were just like us,… — Lucy Worsley Copy Share Image
We have gotten away from this double aspect of either putting the character back into historical events or of making a historical… — Raymond Queneau Copy Share Image
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