“At the age of fifteen he had bought off a twopenny stall in the market a duo-decimo book of recipes, gossip, and… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
In our wildest aberrations we dream of an equilibrium we have left behind and which we naively expect to find at the… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Buffalo is one of America's great designed cities. The interweaving of great architecture, landscape architecture and important historic sites makes Buffalo a… — Richard Moe Copy Share Image
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A major danger in using highly abstractive methods in political philosophy is that one will succeed merely in generalizing one's own local… — Raymond Geuss Copy Share Image
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The 21st century has more potential than perhaps any other in our brief evolutionary history. We stand on the cusp of computing,… — Clive Lewis Copy Share Image
The historic glory of America lies in the fact that it is the one nation that was founded like a church. That… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The function of traditional history is to create a citizenry that looks to the top - the president, Congress, the Supreme Court… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
I have always been interested in mythology and history. The more I read, the more I realized that there have always been… — Michael Scott Copy Share Image
Heroes and scholars represent the opposite extremes... The scholar struggles for the benefit of all humanity, sometimes to reduce physical effort, sometimes… — Santiago Ramon y Cajal Copy Share Image
Back in my 20s, when I wrote 'A Place of Greater Safety,' the French Revolution novel, I thought, 'I'll always have to… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
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Any single historical event is too complex to be adequately known by anyone. It transcends all the intellectual capacities of men. Our… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Communist regimes were not some unfortunate aberration, some historical deviation from a socialist ideal. They were the ultimate expression, unconstrained by democratic… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
I was rejected by every agent in Australia when I was starting out. No one would represent me, because I didn't fit… — Tim Minchin Copy Share Image
I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning; that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change; and that passe… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
It's curious that the Church has become the most tightfisted at the very time in history when God has provided most generously.… — Randy Alcorn Copy Share Image
“History is complex, with levels of detail; it must be taught and may not be known by all members of the group.… — Wendy Griswold Copy Share Image
“I'm getting soft! I need the sea! I miss its greens and blues and grays. Its singing whales. Its silent rays. Its… — David Elliott Copy Share Image
As the most radical agenda in American history comes through the 117th Congress, the Whip Team will play an important role in… — Ronny Jackson Copy Share Image
“Oligarchies, throughout past history, have always thought more of their own advantage than of that of the rest of the community. It… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
If greatness of purpose, smallness of means, and astonishing results are the three criteria of a human genius, who could dare compare… — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share Image
“The resurrection cannot be tamed or tethered by any utilitarian test. It is a vast watershed in history, or it is nothing.… — LIFE Magazine Copy Share Image
I think that a lot of our fashion history shows do touch on important issues. Fashion and Technology obviously does, because technology… — Valerie Steele Copy Share Image
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The desire to be and have a sister is a primitive and profound one that may have everything or nothing to do… — Elizabeth Fishel Copy Share Image
Nothing could have been worse for the development of my mind than Dr. Butler's school, as it was strictly classical, nothing else… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
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For me, the historical and genealogical library is the one I use. I'm working on, I'll say, it's a time travel novel.… — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image
Obamacare's not imploding. The main goal of Obamacare was two-fold. One was to cover the uninsured, of which we've covered 20 million,… — Jonathan Gruber Copy Share Image
There is no greater power on this earth than story.” Will paced the length of the room. “People think boundaries and borders… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
History has proven that art depicting black people cannot be disentangled from the political implications that such art has on their lives.… — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
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If we continue to tell ourselves the popular myths about racial progress or, worse yet, if we say to ourselves that the… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“What I ask my white students to do, and what I ask of you, my dear friends, is to try, the best… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
There is a long history of monetary experience. It tells us that government is at heart a counterfeiter and therefore cannot be… — Garet Garrett Copy Share Image
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“Thanks to this availability of suitable wild mammals and plants, early peoples of the Fertile Crescent could quickly assemble a potent and… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
“As historian Lerone Bennett Jr. eloquently reminds us, 'A nation is a choice.' We could choose to be a nation that extends… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
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