These people in the North-East of Ireland, from old prejudices perhaps more than from anything else, from the whole of their past… — Bonar Law Copy Share Image
“He had no answer. He had no right to all the grace and bounty of this world, earned and maintained by the… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Initially I was very encouraged. Unfortunately, the mainstream media now seems far more interested in what I said when I was 17… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
“It’s the microscopic parasite that causes malaria. Nearly half of all human deaths in recorded history have been caused by this invisible… — David Wong Copy Share Image
I feel like throughout history we've heard bullshit from politicians, but now we're at the perfect intersection of technology and entertainment where… — Morgan Spurlock Copy Share Image
But perhaps the greatest attraction of Mormonism was the promise that each follower would be granted an extraordinarily intimate relationship with God.… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
“I suppose you must feel some bitterness against the historians," Roger ventured. "All the writers who got it wrong--made him out to… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
History is laden with belligerent leaders using humanitarian rhetoric to mask geopolitical aims. History also shows how often ill-informed moralism has led… — Samantha Power Copy Share Image
Seoul has many good tourism resources, including nature, history and people. To take advantage of these, we have to make efforts, to… — Park Won-soon Copy Share Image
“In the 1970s, while researching in the Library of Congress, I found an obscure history of religious architecture that assumed a fact… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
the association of children and fairy-stories is an accident of our domestic history. Fairy-stories have in the modern lettered world been relegated… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Man is full of energy; it is up to him how to use it! You can use your energy to do harm… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
History shows that when the taxes of a nation approach about 20% of the people's income, there begins to be a lack… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
To make revolution in Korea we must know Korean history and geography as well as the customs of the Korean people. Only… — Kim Il-sung Copy Share Image
“The claim at the heart of this book has been carefully researched by several generations of scholars and is orthodox in academic… — Dr. Teresa Morgan Copy Share Image
If you want to oppose Trump, the first thing you should do is say, 'I'm not going to do one thing that… — Steve Schmidt Copy Share Image
I felt very lucky that I not only got to be on Piper's Pit and work with Rowdy Roddy Piper who I… — Wade Barrett Copy Share Image
“When someone sees something old they think it’s worth more than something new.” I’ll give them that. The history, imagining who might… — James L. Rubart Copy Share Image
With a novelist's sense of drama and a historian's understanding of the social forces that shape our lives, Tom Gjelten has captured… — Ronald Steel Copy Share Image
“When you have rejected all the accepted social science methods for understanding the way things work, when you can’t talk straight about… — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
History is strewn with the wrecks of nations which have gained a little progressiveness at the cost of a great deal of… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
If you're going to come to D.C. and it's your first time here, see the view from the bottom of the Washington… — Sean Doolittle Copy Share Image
Don't stay at the job for safe salary increases over time. That will never get you where you want - freedom from… — James Altucher Copy Share Image
The way in which mathematicians and physicists and historians talk is quite different, and what a physicist means by physical intuition and… — Clifford Geertz Copy Share Image
I often suggest in workshops that if you have 30 students in your American History course in 11th grade, or whatever grade… — James W. Loewen Copy Share Image
“Heights plummeted because of a little disaster called civilization. "Heights go way down when we go into state society," says Bogin. "When… — Arianne Cohen Copy Share Image
I tell you, lad, that men will believe is one says, "The Gods say..." They will believe if one says, "I had… — Sheri S. Tepper Copy Share Image
If Church history teaches us anything, it is that we cannot afford to be a vacillating Church. We minister to a people… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
People talk about Kobe's 81-point game, the second-highest scoring game in NBA history. I saw the game. I don't care if it… — Jeff Van Gundy Copy Share Image
Students of American history will recall that the important place where work gets done in the legislative body, almost without exception, is… — Paul Sarbanes Copy Share Image
Theater criticism should be visceral, at least on some level, an articulation of that fierceness and passion. I usually do a fair… — Ben Brantley Copy Share Image
“Rather than a tale of greed, the history of luxury could more accurately be read as a record of emotional trauma. It… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
No matter what you do next, the world needs your energy, your passion, your impatience for progress. Don't shrink from risk. And… — Tim Cook Copy Share Image
Reason is the true creative power, for it produces itself as Infinite Self-consciousness, and its ongoing creation is...world history. As the only… — Bruno Bauer Copy Share Image
Economically, legally, and politically powerless throughout much of western history, women have been linked to nature and the unknowable through metaphors of… — Whitney Chadwick Copy Share Image
“The history of the knowledge of the phenomena of life and of the organized world can be divided into two main periods.… — Paul Ehrlich Copy Share Image
It hurt the economic historians, the Marxists and the fabians, to admit that the Ten Hour Bill, the basic piece of 19th… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
If man survives for as long as the least successful of the dinosaurs-those creatures whom we often deride as nature's failures-then we… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
With calm, knowledgeable precision, Daniel Ziblatt wades into the adjacent swamps of federalism and nineteenth-century European history, emerging with hands full of… — Charles Tilly Copy Share Image
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