“Historians, and even common sense, may inform us, that, however specious these ideas of perfect equality may seem, they are really, at… — David Hume Copy Share Image
We have never in the history of our country been in a situation where an adversary, a foreign power, is working so… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
From a purely tourist standpoint, Oxford is overpowering, being so replete with architecture and history and anecdote that the visitor's mind feels… — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
“What emerges from these separate strands of (modern) history is an image of man himself that bears a new, stark, more nearly… — William Barrett Copy Share Image
Any society that entails the strengthening of the state apparatus by giving it unchecked control over the economy, and re-unites the polity… — Robert Higgs Copy Share Image
I'm a strong believer that you can build great companies in time of both greed and fear. But you have to be… — Brad Feld Copy Share Image
A revolution was never fought, throughout history, for ideals. Revolutions were fought for much more concrete things: food, clothes, housing, and to… — William Powell Copy Share Image
“Thus, in that inevitable taking of sides which comes from selection and emphasis in history, I prefer to try to tell the… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“Here was a manifestation of a huge, historic British folly, repeated over many centuries including the twenty-first: the adoption of gesture strategy,… — Max Hastings Copy Share Image
This stuff doesn't matter. What matters is what you do with it." Sara snaps the highlighter cap on. "I try not to… — Susane Colasanti Copy Share Image
The United States has been utilizing what may prove to be the most historically inept strategy in the entire history of warfare,… — Theodore Beale Copy Share Image
“MEN AND WOMEN who did almost nothing for a large part of the year tend not to figure prominently in history books.… — Graham Robb Copy Share Image
“After all, words are what remain when all the deeds have been done. Words can shatter faith; start a war; change the… — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
Antoninus diffused order and tranquility over the greatest part of the earth. His reign is marked by the rare advantage of furnishing… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“The human longing for God or the transcendent runs very deep—perhaps far too deep to be trusted, but also too deep to… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share Image
My culture, Euro-American culture, did so many horrible things to the animal and treated it with such disrespect and such wanton greed.… — Steven Rinella Copy Share Image
A federation of all humanity, together with a sufficient measure of social justice, to ensure health, education, and a rough equality of… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
It is the greatest scam in history. I am amazed, appalled and highly offended by it. Global Warming; It is a scam.… — John Coleman Copy Share Image
“The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability.… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
There is one unmistakable lesson in American history; a community that allows a large number of young men to grow up in… — Daniel Patrick Moynihan Copy Share Image
“At the beginning of history there was also a garden and a command. God put Adam and Eve in that garden, and… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
“The Air Loom, for all its florid craziness, can be seen to have a function and a rationale: as a miraculous, if… — Mike Jay Copy Share Image
Don't ever let anyone tell you that history doesn't repeat. For 70 years, liberals have been spinning the yarn that FDR's New… — David Limbaugh Copy Share Image
The paleontological evidence before us today clearly demonstrates ordered progressive change with the successive development of new faunal and floral assemblages through… — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
We help immigrants because we are an immigrant nation, and we are an immigrant church. We've always done that; this is nothing… — Blase J. Cupich Copy Share Image
There are many important books on oral history. My book was the launch title in the Understanding Qualitative Research series with Oxford… — Patricia Leavy Copy Share Image
In the long run, the oppressor is also a victim. In the short run (and so far, human history has consisted only… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
ANYONE who studies the history of ideas should notice how much more often people on the political left, more so than others,… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
By contrast with history, evolution is an unconscious process. Another, and perhaps a better way of putting it would be to say… — Owen Barfield Copy Share Image
“the man who knew that his people were in the "fire of Egypt," which would some day be paralleled by the crematoria… — Benjamin Blech Copy Share Image
It's rare that we actively and consciously 'forget'; most of the time we have simply forgotten, with no consciousness of having forgotten.… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“At best Americans give but a limited attention to history. Too much happens too rapidly, and before we can evaluate it, or… — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
He gave a little laugh and looked down.I felt so many emotions in one. I wanted to slap him and kiss him… — Jade Copy Share Image
But really, for me, I tried to find first-person accounts. I tried to read stories from men and women who had survived… — Jurnee Smollett Copy Share Image
Worshipping the Lord means giving him the place that he must have; worshipping the Lord means stating, believing-not only by our words-… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
“Prostitution, perversion, and pornography are intertwined with independence and radical politics in the history of outstanding women. Radclyffe Hall, Colette, Anaïs Nin,… — Pat Califia Copy Share Image
Being around a couple good tight ends in my history, both in Philadelphia and Carolina, namely in Chad Lewis and then in… — Sean McDermott Copy Share Image
In Hitler's launching of the Nazi campaign upon Russia we can already see, after less than six months of fighting, that he… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“Very few who manage a big league club are successful, fewer still are the ones who experience success over an extended period… — Tucker Elliot Copy Share Image
The children of Birmingham did not really die in the State of Alabama, however, because Alabama is a state of mind, and… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
![“Very few who manage a big league club are successful, fewer still are the ones who experience success over an extended period of time, but to achieve a level of success so extraordinary that it is given a category all it’s own—“The Big Red Machine”—places Sparky [Anderson] in one of the most…” quote by Tucker Elliot](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/bbf/tucker-elliot-3557_baseball_very-few-who-manage-a-big-league-club-ar_2886486.jpg)
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