Look, we'll have to confront the pathologies of poverty at some point. We can deal with them cheaply at the front end,… — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
I did a couple of little Off-Broadway things, but my first Broadway show was A History Of The American Film, written by… — Brent Spiner Copy Share Image
I'm not trying to give any definite answer. What I'm trying to prove is that we have enough gaps, enough discrepancies, enough… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
A superpower that no longer stands for anything, that no one believes in anymore, that is seen only as a bully, will… — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the… — William James Copy Share Image
For most of America's history, people typically aspired to acquire 'a competency' rather than great riches. A competency meant the ability to… — Stephanie Coontz Copy Share Image
“Joe sighed and eyed me sceptically, ‘I offer him a place in history, in the universe, sacrifice and all that shit and… — J W Murison Copy Share Image
The natural historian is not a fisherman who prays for cloudy days and good luck merely; but as fishing has been styled… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“As Peter Drucker said, “In a few hundred years, when the history of our time will be written from a long-term perspective,… — Greg McKeown Copy Share Image
President Obama is a gifted politician. He is gifted with rhetoric virtuosity. He is gifted with the ability to lie directly to… — Ben Shapiro Copy Share Image
“The tremendous historical need of our unsatisfied modern culture, the assembling around one of countless other cultures, the consuming desire for knowledge--what… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I realise that I do not change the course of history. I am an actor, I do a movie, that's the end… — Leonardo DiCaprio Copy Share Image
“This book is an essay in what is derogatorily called "literary economics," as opposed to mathematical economics, econometrics, or (embracing them both)… — Charles P. Kindleberger Copy Share Image
I realized that I had traveled to Havana during what now seems like the childhood of the Cuban Revolution, if you think… — Alma Guillermoprieto Copy Share Image
“Somehow the painted door now stood open. Blaise was following Livia through it, past Throgmorton's outstretched arm. Sunni shed her slippers and… — Teresa Flavin Copy Share Image
“On any basic figure of the Africans landed alive in the Americas, one would have to make several extensions- starting with a… — Walter Rodney Copy Share Image
“Conspiracy theory, like causality, works fantastically well as an explanatory model but only if you use it backwards. The fact that we… — Peter J. Carroll Copy Share Image
Both history and contemporary data show that countries prosper more when there are stable and dependable rules, under which people can make… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Whenever you think of Lincoln as a historian, in his own mind, he becomes the Great Emancipator. This is his role in… — Eric Foner Copy Share Image
The Great Migration changed American history not just for the migrants but for all of us. It made possible American cultural milestones… — William Barr Copy Share Image
“After 1656 the Dutch, who had gained control over the Moluccas, chose the islands that could be most easily defended. They then… — Meredith Sayles Hughes Copy Share Image
“The British succeeded. India deindustrialized, it ruralized. As the industrial revolution spread in England, India was turning into a poor, ruralized and… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
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I hope I succeed in demonstrating that you may equally find compelling and significant narratives - stories that alter or add to… — Michael Portillo Copy Share Image
Palestine was the West Point and Annapolis for the world. In that little country God was training up a people out of… — William Mackergo Taylor Copy Share Image
Anita Hill has changed the history of how we deal with each other in the workplace. But it also was an interesting… — Rick Famuyiwa Copy Share Image
The private life of one man shall be a more illustrious monarchy,--more formidable to its enemy, more sweet and serene in its… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“The history of the church seems to indicate to us two positions as true, with reference to this matter,—viz. lst, That assurance… — William Cunningham Copy Share Image
Throughout the history of spaceflight and the study of effects of exploring to human, space environment to human body, we have accumulated… — Roman Romanenko Copy Share Image
“We all like to think we'll grow up,' Beatrice said. 'History's the one dream we all try and dream together.' I don't… — Scott Bradfield Copy Share Image
Christians have had issues all throughout history with using their Christianity to defend and disguise immoral acts and viewpoints; doing what they… — Sashauni Aaeliyae Copy Share Image
I do like playing the darker side of life but as much as the lighter side as well. They all resonate out… — Michael Eklund Copy Share Image
“Not only are the new technologies exponential, digital, and combinatorial, but most of the gains are still ahead of us. In the… — Erik Brynjolfsson Copy Share Image
A country that has really resonated with me and I was really impressed with was Israel. I found that the whole country… — Andrea Bocelli Copy Share Image
“In the old army there was a story that in his [Braxton Bragg] younger days, as a lieutenant commanding one of several… — Shelby Foote Copy Share Image
As a practical matter, it is hard to think of any society in human history in which a majority population has said… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I am not a historian. I happen to think that the content of my mother's life - her myths, her superstitions, her… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
Look now — in all of history men have been taught that killing of men is an evil thing not to be… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
The power of story is potent and that's why historical fiction can be an extraordinarily significant way of teaching people logical truth… — Hank Hanegraaff Copy Share Image
“Human curiosity. Such a very interesting thing. Think of what we owe to it throughout history. It is said to be usually… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
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