“Then again, given that human history appears to be defined by a succession of more or less corrupt ruling elites, and if… — Laura Knight-Jadczyk Copy Share Image
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If you're deeply engaged in an event, you're part of it. But if you're outside of it, disinterested, you are the regard… — Cole Swensen Copy Share Image
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All inquiry into antiquity, all curiosity respecting the Pyramids, the excavated cities, Stonehenge, the Ohio Circles, Mexico, Memphis,--is the desire to do… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
What we need to do is to have a sensible approach to immigration. It needs to be open. It needs to be… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
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The thing I found in correlation with my studies as a history major was that experience taught me you have to figure… — Tamlyn Tomita Copy Share Image
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From its first faint glimmerings, History shews Man's constant progress as a beast of prey. As such he conquers every land, subdues… — Richard Wagner Copy Share Image
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The past is never dead. It's not even past. All of us labor in webs spun long before we were born, webs… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
I did go through graduate school and I like to do research, to create something that has a certain objective solidity. The… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
When reviewing my novel Dreams of the Compass Rose for the Magazine of F&SF, master fantasist Charles de Lint called it "engaging… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
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I want to travel the world - like Egypt. I love history. That's my favorite subject at school. From the building of… — Millicent Simmonds Copy Share Image
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All of you are aware of the tragic history of racism in America, but for a very long time, African-Americans and their… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
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Korell is that frequent phenomenon in history : the republic whose ruler has every attribute of the absolute monarch but the name.… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
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If Jesus Christ was who He claimed to be, and He did die on a cross at a point of time in… — Josh McDowell Copy Share Image
“many of the key elements that define modern antisemitism can be traced to this time in history. A variety of stereotypes and… — Phyllis Goldstein Copy Share Image
Throughout the history of medicine, including the shamanic healing traditions, the Greek tradition of Asclepius, Aristotle and Hippocrates, and the folk and… — Jeanne Achterberg Copy Share Image
Theology is a non-subject. I'm not saying that professors of theology are non-professors. They do interesting things, like study biblical history, biblical… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
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