The Iraq War is the largest strategic blunder in U.S. history … On every level - moral, strategic, military and economic -… — Tomas Young Copy Share Image
[In geology,] As in history, the material in hand remains silent if no questions are asked. The nature of these questions depends… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I mean, I don't know much about the Civil War, but whenever I think of that time—I mean, ever since Gone With… — William Styron Copy Share Image
I chose commerce while at school, but didn't get admission for B.Com in any college, based on my marks. Hence, I decided… — Bhuvan Bam Copy Share Image
If anyone thinks they'd rather be in a different part of history, they're probably not a very good student of history. Life… — Elon Musk Copy Share Image
“Perhaps the most powerful cause of the breakdown of the closed society was the development of sea-communications and commerce. Close contact with… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
History, well taught, is the demythologising of the past... Take any important issue of our time - Northern Ireland, Nuclear Disarmament, Race,… — Alan Bullock Copy Share Image
I think what it was about was the people's right to vote and have those votes counted. And if you think back… — David Boies Copy Share Image
You could argue that [the decline of public schools] is one of the major disasters in our lifetimes. We took one of… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
“On one level, Americans are too distant from the Middle East, too naive to understand its complexities and history. On another, it's… — Robert Baer Copy Share Image
“Throughout human history, the apostles of purity, those who have claimed to possess a total explanation, have wrought havoc among mere mixed-up… — Rushdie Salman Copy Share Image
History, which undertakes to record the transactions of the past, for the instruction of future ages, would ill deserve that honourable office… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“History matters, not because it repeats itself (which it never does), but because its narration can rid demons that torment the oppressed,… — Seth Garfield Copy Share Image
One of my friends once saw another guy's (criminal) record and said, 'Look, this guy is a born troublemaker, just a loser.'… — Mike Tyson Copy Share Image
Yes, I love going to fittings and talking about the history of a costume. For 'Versailles,' a play set in 1919, the… — Gwilym Lee Copy Share Image
Whatever their relative valuation of the single and married states, most societies in history made sharp distinctions between those who married and… — Stephanie Coontz Copy Share Image
“Our evolution depends on our memory. If we keep forgetting the mistakes of the past, only to keep repeating them, then we… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“Economists have a singular method of procedure. There are only two kinds of institutions for them, artificial and natural. The institutions of… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
In the history of postwar German writing, for the first 15 or 20 years, people avoided mentioning political persecution - the incarceration… — W. G. Sebald Copy Share Image
Twerking - and it's a lot more than twerking - comes from a long history of music and dance in New Orleans.… — Big Freedia Copy Share Image
“Extractive institutions are so common in history because they have a powerful logic: they can generate some limited prosperity while at the… — Daron Acemoğlu Copy Share Image
Modern history is, as you all know, full of examples of great movements that disappeared because they had ceased to have any… — Robert Menzies Copy Share Image
Every country has rich people. But only a few places have achieved a vibrant and stable middle class. And in the history… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
Its a bit mad. Too bad, I mean, that getting to know each just for a fleeting second Must be replaced by… — John Ashbery Copy Share Image
The mind of a generation is its speech. A writer makes aspects of that speech enduring by putting them in print. He… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
Marriage is like a runaway train without break heading towards a dustbin of history. It's a a sad indictment that the bedrock… — Kemmy Nola Http://wwwamoreloveforlifecom Copy Share Image
“QUESTION: Are you suggesting that history is irrelevant, then, and the temporal span of humankind merely the recycling of tropes? ANSWER: Well,… — Vanessa Place Copy Share Image
“he spoke of what he called the "inner history of weakness, of what disappoints us in leaders, the timidity of thought, the… — Ronald Steel Copy Share Image
“while we remain immersed in the study of personal incidents and details, as what such a statesman said or how many men… — John Fiske Copy Share Image
All problems, depressions, wars, disasters, assassinations, all of them were planned, caused, instigated, and implemented by the International Bankers and their attempt… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One of the beauties about going solo was being able to start from scratch and say, 'What do I really want? What… — Steven Wilson Copy Share Image
“Listen, she said, "cherubim have come to my planet before." "I know that. Where do you think I got my information?" "What… — Madeline L'Engle Copy Share Image
A human heart that matched what we think of as heart-shaped - a perfectly formed bright red thing with two halves of… — George Fetherling Copy Share Image
While the scientist, on the one hand, is concerned with giving a faithful description of facts, on the other, he has the… — Marie Taylor Collins Swabey Copy Share Image
In studying the history of the human mind one is impressed again and again by the fact that its growth keeps pace… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Prior to an individual's encounter with the love of God at a particular time in history, however, there has to be another,… — Hans Urs von Balthasar Copy Share Image
It is quite likely ... that the central figure of the gospels is not based on any historical individual. Put simply, not… — Robert M. Price Copy Share Image
History has shown us that it's not religion that's the problem, but any system of thought that insists that one group of… — Rod Liddle Copy Share Image
“...the Bush administration may, in future years, be remembered 'for bringing peace to the Middle East' (as Condoleezza Rice has pronounced). History… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
“The rest of history for three and twenty centuries is threaded with the spreading out and development and interaction and the clearer… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image