“The mind is the most powerful force in the universe. It is that which created every great empire in all of history.… — Mitch Aigner Copy Share Image
My history helps other people in terms of treatment and lessons in recovery. It affects my daily routine, as my body is… — Melody Gardot Copy Share Image
What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
The love of liberty was the ruling passion of these Germans; the enjoyment of it, their best treasure; the word that expressed… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Unsurprisingly, Hong Kong has had a long history of epidemics. The 1968 flu pandemic that killed 1 million people around the world… — Zeynep Tufekci Copy Share Image
The lessons of history would suggest that civilisations move in cycles. You can track that back quite far - the Babylonians, the… — Elon Musk Copy Share Image
Armenians, as a people that have survived the Genocide, have a moral duty towards mankind and history in the prevention of genocides.… — Serzh Sargsyan Copy Share Image
“...the name of the baby girl, the names of her parents and godparents, the date and hour of her birth, the street… — José Saramago Copy Share Image
Is not the history of real civilization the slow and gradual emancipation of the intellect, of the judgment, from the mastery of… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“To begin with, there is an almost compulsive promiscuity associated with homosexual behavior. 75% of homosexual men have more than 100 sexual… — William Lane Craig Copy Share Image
The people I really do dislike are the morally unimaginative kind of evolutionary reductionists who, in the name of science, think they… — Bernard Williams Copy Share Image
It seems very strange ... that in the course of the world's history so obvious an improvement should never have been adopted.… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
I'm absolutely positive it's in our human nature to want to know about the past. The two most popular movies of all… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
“After history, which I occasionally enjoy, and French, which I tres don't, I have double art. The art studio hasn't been changed… — Melissa Jensen Copy Share Image
From my earliest childhood I nourished and cherished the desire to make a creditable journey in a new country, and write such… — Joseph Dalton Hooker Copy Share Image
“History is made not simply with events, but by remembering those events, a double drumbeat like a heartbeat. History can be written… — Christopher Bram Copy Share Image
The trial of Enron chiefs Jeffrey Skilling and Ken Lay began four-and-a-half years after perpetrating -- allegedly -- the fraud that led… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
All the Midkemia stories are part of a 'history of an imaginary place,' so I've always known the cycle covered five rift… — Raymond E. Feist Copy Share Image
“Imagine a society entirely absorbed in its own historicity. It would be incapable of producing historians. Living entirely under the sign of… — Pierre Nora Copy Share Image
History is the most dangerous product evolved from the chemistry of the intellect. ...History will justify anything. It teaches precisely nothing, for… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
As a novelist, I mined my history, my family and my memory, but in a very specific way. Writing fiction, I never… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
“By trying to understand the past on its own terms, the historian treats it with integrity rather than manipulating it or superimposing… — John Fea Copy Share Image
Creation has the truth written all over it - the age of the universe, the history of the world - but nine-tenths… — Sheri S. Tepper Copy Share Image
One great lesson from history we need to keep on re-learning. It is that sometimes your adversaries tell you exactly what they're… — Michael Morell Copy Share Image
“My pillowcases were totally full and the boots hanging around my neck added to the weight I was carrying, but I was… — Captain Hank Bracker, "Suppresed I Rise Copy Share Image
“See, everything that ever could possibly have happened, in the entire history of the universe right from the Big Bang up until… — Lawrence Watt-Evans Copy Share Image
“...what has mattered are the moments of exposure to every life, when habit is no longer enough, and choices have to be… — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
“He led her back to the house, the perfume from the acacia clinging to her. The djinn was supposed to live in… — Nadeem Aslam Copy Share Image
I often tell people who want to write historical fiction: don't read all that much about the period you're writing about; read… — Thomas Mallon Copy Share Image
It is a law of nature that everything run by the government will get more expensive and worse over time. Everything run… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
The person who is working on his or her family history fits the description of one who is fulfilling his or her… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
“The historian Cassiodorus believed that the selective destruction of Alaric, as regards the Greek monuments, was of good effect. Alaric had some… — R.A. Lafferty Copy Share Image
The CIA's official history of the Bay of Pigs operation is filled with dramatic and harrowing details that not only lay bare… — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
“Another result of the War of 1812 was the loss of part of our history. As historian Bruce Johansen put it, "A… — James W. Loewen Copy Share Image
“Sometime during my study of the Dark Ages and Middle Ages, I uncovered an odd paradox that exists in our minds about… — Andy Andrews Copy Share Image
History's villains are more easily recognized in retrospect. In an article published in 1935 and reprinted in 1937, Winston Churchill expressed a… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“If we grant that our evolutionary history did not prepare us to detect lies from demeanor, why do we not learn how… — Paul Ekman Copy Share Image
“Memory acts at various levels: individual and family, social, and nation-state. Memory is not fixed: far from it, at every level memory… — Suzanne Keene Copy Share Image
“What Jesus did was not a mere example of something else, not a mere manifestation of some larger truth; it was itself… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Our democracy's history is littered with names we neither remember nor celebrate - people who stood in the way of progress while… — Gabrielle Giffords Copy Share Image
![“One great lesson from history we need to keep on re-learning. It is that sometimes your adversaries tell you exactly what they're going to do. How many times did [Osama] bin Laden say prior to 9/11 that he was coming after the U.S.? ISIS made clear that when they established their caliphate in…” quote by Michael Morell](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/4a6/michael-morell-26084_adversaries_one-great-lesson-from-history-we-need-to_649987.jpg)
![“It is a law of nature that everything run by the government will get more expensive and worse over time. Everything run by the private sector will get better and cheaper over time. The fact that [Obamacare] starts this badly does not bode well…We want healthcare run on the same system that gave us…” quote by Ann Coulter](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/38c/ann-coulter-469_capitalism_it-is-a-law-of-nature-that-everything-ru_2470226.png)
![“Another result of the War of 1812 was the loss of part of our history. As historian Bruce Johansen put it, "A century of learning [from Native Americans] was coming to a close. A century and more of forgetting--of calling history into service to rationalize conquest--was beginning." After 1815…” quote by James W. Loewen](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/b88/james-w-loewen-12569_forgetting_another-result-of-the-war-of-1812-was-th_2288641.png)
