“There are moments in history that seem like a mist, as if what really happens matters less that what should have happened.… — Karen Joy Fowler Copy Share Image
The only justification for repressive institutions is material and cultural deficit. But such institutions, at certain stages of history, perpetuate and produce… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“A group of ancient Roman women were, with vanity, showing their jewels one to another. Among them was Cornelia, the mother of… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
“Ignorance/hateracist ideasdiscrimination: this causal relationship is largely ahistorical. It has actually been the inverse relationship—racial discrimination led to racist ideas which led… — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
When every fact, every present or past phenomenon of that universe, every phase of present or past life therein, has been examined,… — Karl Pearson Copy Share Image
Frank Johnson was recognized as one of the great federal judges of American history, I suppose. He was a law-and-order judge. He… — Jeff Sessions Copy Share Image
The very action of the proletariat is a determining factor in history. And although we can no more jump over the stages… — Rosa Luxemburg Copy Share Image
Perhaps the main stumbling block to a better, and more fruitful, theological relationship with Judaism and the Jewish people has been the… — David Novak Copy Share Image
When I left Washington, we actually had a balanced budget and we paid down the most amount of the national debt in… — John Kasich Copy Share Image
“There is such a weight of history behind this that it makes Valerio feel weak. He has never experienced anything of the… — Sahar Delijani Copy Share Image
Growing up in the '70s and '80s when my dad had an art gallery, one of the things that frustrated me was… — Jason Blum Copy Share Image
I started out wanting to be a naturalist. My obsession in my youth was with bird-watching. I collected things, I spent a… — Matt Ridley Copy Share Image
If we will admit time into our thoughts at all, the mythologies, those vestiges of ancient poems, wrecks of poems, so to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I was totally absorbed in the real world, the politics, the history, the news, and I just couldn't find my way into… — David Guterson Copy Share Image
Looking at America's history, ordinary people did something extraordinary. Leaders risked their lives for freedoms that we take for granted today. That's… — Scott Walker Copy Share Image
“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
At the hour of midnight the Salerian gate was silently opened, and the inhabitants were awakened by the tremendous sound of the… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
I try to do everything from thinking about big issues like how a building fits into the larger stream of architectural history… — Paul Goldberger Copy Share Image
Like it or not, we live in interesting times. They are times of danger and uncertainty; but they are also the most… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
“There was a great historian lost in Wolverstone. He had the right imagination that knows just how far it is safe to… — Rafael Sabatini Copy Share Image
The Net is not television. It is the finest direct-marketing mechanism in the history of mankind. It is direct mail with free… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Ever hear the expression "write what you know?" My version says "write what you want to know." If you want to know… — Amelia Atwater-Rhodes Copy Share Image
“After over a century of one of the deepest blood feuds in the history of inhuman warfare, peace had finally descended on… — Phil Wohl Copy Share Image
“In the theater of the past that is constituted by memory, the stage setting maintains the characters in their dominant roles .… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
The thing that concerns me most is that, in the digital age, if we fail to make efforts to maintain the value… — Satoru Iwata Copy Share Image
My countrymen: we have reached a turning point in our history. The choice is yours. Shall we venture into this brave new… — Ferdinand Marcos Copy Share Image
“Dad’s favorite subject was history, but he taught it with a decidedly west-of-the-Pecos point of view. As the proud son of an… — Jeannette Walls Copy Share Image
“[P]ressed too far, the cult of ethnicity has had bad consequences too. The new ethnic gospel rejects the unifying vision of individuals… — Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr Copy Share Image
“So you've got the honest truth and faithful history of a world where he who shatters the skulls of others most efficiently… — Andrzej Sapkowski Copy Share Image
It was the world of Southern, rural, black growing up, of folks sitting on porches day and night, of folks calling your… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
It has had a calamitous effect on converted peoples. To be converted you have to destroy your past, destroy your history. You… — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
Texas history is a varied, tempestuous, and vast as the state itself. Texas yesterday is unbelievable, but no more incredible than Texas… — Edna Ferber Copy Share Image
“I strongly believe that teachers need to tell students about great lives and make children understand their history and heritage. It is… — A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Copy Share Image
History is preoccupied with fundamental processes of change. If you are allergic to these processes, you abandon history and take cover in… — Edward Hallett Carr Copy Share Image
Boston's journey through nearly four centuries of change is the stuff of American history. From starting a Revolution on the waterfront to… — Marty Walsh Copy Share Image
The moment Aunt March took her nap, or was busy with company, Jo hurried to this quiet place, and curling herself up… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
The history of science and culture is filled with stories of how many of the greatest scientific and artistic discoveries occurred while… — Daniel Levitin Copy Share Image
“We live in a time that demands a discourse of both critique and possibility, one that recognizes that without an informed citizenry,… — Henry A. Giroux Copy Share Image
My particular lifetime, my individual profile, represents something very basic to African-American history and culture because I was a second generation immigrant,… — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
“It is surprising to me that one of the great crimes of history has gone unnoticed; the abduction of god by religions.… — Steve Maraboli Copy Share Image
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