In a one-hour documentary, you can tell maybe ten stories. That's how the documentary is structured. I wrote to forty of the… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
Let me tell you what is coming. After the sacrifice of countless millions of treasure and hundreds of thousands of lives you… — Sam Houston Copy Share Image
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At first I wanted to go to university, but I really didn't dare to. I was too self-conscious, being a working-class kid.… — Per Petterson Copy Share Image
If you try to make interesting films, you're going to be disappointed most of the time. I choose just not to look… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
“Of the four worst K-12 school shootings in history, three have occurred in Europe. Germany was host to two of these—one in… — John R. Lott Jr Copy Share Image
“When I started researching airline stewardesses, I found that the topic made for amusing cocktail party banter. “You’re writing a book about… — Victoria Vantoch Copy Share Image
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“Our generation will likely have the good fortune to experience two of the most amazing events in history: the creation of true… — Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee Copy Share Image
A history of perceived humiliation, after all, lurks behind many acts of terror. And competing narratives of victimhood and insults sustain conflicts… — Serge Schmemann Copy Share Image
One reads the truer deeper facts of Reconstruction with a great despair. It is at once so simple and human, and yet… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think that we have positive moments in our history and negative moments in our history. We incarcerated Japanese Americans in the… — Michael Bennet Copy Share Image
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“Of course, the political history of the United States is exactly the reverse. It is in large measure the history of a… — David Horowitz Copy Share Image
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The Russian Revolution mobilized a popular passion across the world based on Marxism-Leninism, fueled by messianic zeal. It was, perhaps, after the… — Simon Sebag Montefiore Copy Share Image
America has no north, no south, no east, no west. The sun rises over the hills and sets over the mountains, the… — Sam Watkins Copy Share Image
Books of natural history aim commonly to be hasty schedules, or inventories of God's property, by some clerk. They do not in… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
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“The biggest revolution of the past 50,000 years of human history was not the advent of the Internet, the growth of the… — Spencer Wells Copy Share Image
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And all times are one time, and all those dead in the past never lived before our definition gives them life, and… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
The world is very lucky to have America. It's got to be the first time in the whole history of the planet… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“nobody was ever convicted for the “Saint Valentine’s Day Massacre,” the most famous gangland hit in American history. That said, Capone’s involvement… — Charles River Editors Copy Share Image
Any time you make an analogy to horrific people in history, Mussolini or Hitler, people say, 'Oh, you're exaggerating, you're talking about,… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
“Throughout amerika's history, people have been imprisoned because of their political beliefs and charged with criminal acts in order to justify that… — Assata Shakur Copy Share Image
I think one of the most important changes of our time has been our attitude to fear. Every civilisation defends itself by… — Theodore Zeldin Copy Share Image
One of the core ideas of the Bible is that meaning can be found in history. The sheer act of telling and… — Bruce Feiler Copy Share Image
History without the history of science, to alter slightly an apothegm of Lord Bacon, resembles a statue of Polyphemus without his eye-that… — I. Bernard Cohen Copy Share Image
As for the Republicans -- how can one regard seriously a frightened, greedy, nostalgic huddle of tradesmen and lucky idlers who shut… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
At times, we need to stop and rethink everything. Our entire history is made up of people who were sure they knew… — Yair Lapid Copy Share Image
If you have things or are involved with things that turn on, it's going to have code. And there are so many… — Alexis Ohanian Copy Share Image
Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
How lucky we are to be able to see and hear so much of our history over the past century as it… — Jerry Springer Copy Share Image
“My own memories of the vimanas during my lifetime as Yudhisthira are that they were basically leftovers from a golden age several… — Michael Jaco Copy Share Image
The urgent consideration of the public safety may undoubtedly authorize the violation of every positive law. How far that or any other… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
TRUE LEADERS THAT HAVE EVER EMERGED IN HUMAN HISTORY ARE TRAINED/MADE THROUGH A CERTIFIED PROCESS,THEY ARE NOT PRODUCT OF CHANCE AND ARE… — WINNER C O Copy Share Image
Social historians of the future no doubt will be amused by the fact that we late-twentieth-century Americans found it acceptable to discuss… — Mary Ann Glendon Copy Share Image
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