“Beginning in the late 1940s, the current of people fleeing from farm to town and city swelled into a flood—one of the… — James T. Patterson Copy Share Image
What's four years in our long American history? Remember when I asked that wheelchair-bound politician to "stand up." It turns me off… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
History rewards all research. And history fails to record one single instance in which the white man - as a people -… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
The rugby team is a massive part of the city and generates a real passion but there is also far more to… — Gareth Thomas Copy Share Image
Jesus Christ is the greatest man in the history of the world. And to me, he's the greatest person in the history… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
Big bang cosmology is probably as widely believed as has been any theory of the universe in the history of Western civilization.… — Geoffrey Burbidge Copy Share Image
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We develop sentiments that we are only going to work with people like us. But you don't build up a nation by… — Ashraf Ghani Copy Share Image
A lot of things in life only become historic in retrospect, but we knew that Live Aid was a historic day while… — Martin Kemp Copy Share Image
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“The white man will come to destroy us again. His own history proves this. Just as he destroyed the so-called American Indian,… — Keith Lee Johnson Copy Share Image
My father is an Indian Ugandan. That's why I was born in Uganda. I've always been proud to be Ugandan, and I've… — Zohran Mamdani Copy Share Image
“As a group who can never afford the expensive fiction of having a nation—and whose bodies suffer from nationalism by being used… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
The link between literacy and revolutions is a well-known historical phenomenon. The three great revolutions of modern European history -- the English,… — Orlando Figes Copy Share Image
Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in our lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope. Nothing which is true… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
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The history of the world is like: He kills me, I kill him, only with different cosmetics and different castings. So in… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
I have issues with anyone who tries to claim that science is unworkable - creationists who deny evidence for past history, yet… — Liz Williams Copy Share Image
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By opening space, for the first time in our history, rather than inexorably extracting the blood of life from this oh-so-precious sphere… — Rick Tumlinson Copy Share Image
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Lincoln made mistakes. Roosevelt made mistakes. Eisenhower made mistakes. The Battle of the Bulge was the biggest intelligence failure in American military… — Rudy Giuliani Copy Share Image
The hiring of Phil Messina, the production designer, was a big decision. He's so gifted, and his ideas were always so smart… — Nina Jacobson Copy Share Image
History teaches us, in no mistaken language, how often customs and practices, which were originated without lawful warrant, and opposed to the… — Samuel Freeman Miller Copy Share Image
It seemed to me, in some way, especially when you're looking back at distant historical events, the "Truth" with a capital "T"… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
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On the earth, satellite of a star speeding through space, living things had arisen under the influence of conditions which were part… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Sound preservation is not only the history of our culture and our country but also a document of life in the world.… — Michael Feinstein Copy Share Image
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The great merit of Stephen Gould's account of the disastrous history of phychometrics is that he shifts the argument from a sterile… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
If you go back to the history of the 'Madden' game, I was probably on the cover of it half the time.… — John Madden Copy Share Image
“She looks like a mop." "And this is exactly the problem." She waved at his entire body. "You can't even stop yourself… — Katee Robert Copy Share Image
“Your blood's a testament to that long line of troubling history; it's nothing you can't handle. The president-elect of the United States… — Chip Livingston Copy Share Image
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