“Perhaps the most powerful cause of the breakdown of the closed society was the development of sea-communications and commerce. Close contact with… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
If anyone thinks they'd rather be in a different part of history, they're probably not a very good student of history. Life… — Elon Musk Copy Share Image
I chose commerce while at school, but didn't get admission for B.Com in any college, based on my marks. Hence, I decided… — Bhuvan Bam Copy Share Image
“I mean, I don't know much about the Civil War, but whenever I think of that time—I mean, ever since Gone With… — William Styron Copy Share Image
You could argue that [the decline of public schools] is one of the major disasters in our lifetimes. We took one of… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
I think what it was about was the people's right to vote and have those votes counted. And if you think back… — David Boies Copy Share Image
History, which undertakes to record the transactions of the past, for the instruction of future ages, would ill deserve that honourable office… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“Throughout human history, the apostles of purity, those who have claimed to possess a total explanation, have wrought havoc among mere mixed-up… — Rushdie Salman Copy Share Image
“On one level, Americans are too distant from the Middle East, too naive to understand its complexities and history. On another, it's… — Robert Baer Copy Share Image
Whatever their relative valuation of the single and married states, most societies in history made sharp distinctions between those who married and… — Stephanie Coontz Copy Share Image
One of my friends once saw another guy's (criminal) record and said, 'Look, this guy is a born troublemaker, just a loser.'… — Mike Tyson Copy Share Image
Yes, I love going to fittings and talking about the history of a costume. For 'Versailles,' a play set in 1919, the… — Gwilym Lee Copy Share Image
“History matters, not because it repeats itself (which it never does), but because its narration can rid demons that torment the oppressed,… — Seth Garfield Copy Share Image
“Economists have a singular method of procedure. There are only two kinds of institutions for them, artificial and natural. The institutions of… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“Our evolution depends on our memory. If we keep forgetting the mistakes of the past, only to keep repeating them, then we… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
Its a bit mad. Too bad, I mean, that getting to know each just for a fleeting second Must be replaced by… — John Ashbery Copy Share Image
Every country has rich people. But only a few places have achieved a vibrant and stable middle class. And in the history… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
Modern history is, as you all know, full of examples of great movements that disappeared because they had ceased to have any… — Robert Menzies Copy Share Image
“Extractive institutions are so common in history because they have a powerful logic: they can generate some limited prosperity while at the… — Daron Acemoğlu Copy Share Image
Twerking - and it's a lot more than twerking - comes from a long history of music and dance in New Orleans.… — Big Freedia Copy Share Image
In the history of postwar German writing, for the first 15 or 20 years, people avoided mentioning political persecution - the incarceration… — W. G. Sebald Copy Share Image
Marriage is like a runaway train without break heading towards a dustbin of history. It's a a sad indictment that the bedrock… — Kemmy Nola Http://wwwamoreloveforlifecom Copy Share Image
The mind of a generation is its speech. A writer makes aspects of that speech enduring by putting them in print. He… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
History is filled with weird but true stories of social contagion - from dancing manias in the Middle Ages to nuns pretending… — Susannah Cahalan Copy Share Image
“I think that you appreciate that there are extraordinary men and women and extraordinary moments when history leaps forward on the backs… — Chris Carter Copy Share Image
If you look back over the history of computing, it started as mainframes or terminals. As PCs or work stations became prevalent,… — Peter Levine Copy Share Image
There's a long history of anthropomorphic animals in Japanese literature. The so-called 'funny animal scrolls' were the first narratives in Japanese history,… — Stan Sakai Copy Share Image
A library is that venerable place where men preserve the history of their experience, their tentative experiments, their discoveries, and their plans...… — Georges Duhamel Copy Share Image
“A man is the history of his breaths and thoughts, acts, atoms and wounds, love indifference and dislike, also of his race… — A.S. Byatt Copy Share Image
It is one of history's most mocking ironies that the German customs union, which set out to dominate Europe and conquer Britain… — Enoch Powell Copy Share Image
When the history books are written in a thousand years, when space travel would have become routine, the moment that humans first… — Helen Sharman Copy Share Image
What disturbs or assures us about race has very little to do with blood or biology. Race is about how you use… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
When it comes to the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders, I've never heard any stories of them drinking or drugging or causing problems in… — AJ Chilson Copy Share Image
Modernity is the ensemble of changes - intellectual, political, economic, social, cultural, technological, aesthetic - that have altered the world drastically since… — George Scialabba Copy Share Image
The past is our treasure. Its works, whether we know them or not, flourish in our lives with whatever strength they had.… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
Imagine stepping into the shoes of Roberto Duran, one of the most legendary boxers in the history of the sport, and definitely… — Edgar Ramirez Copy Share Image
We have throughout our history been tested when it comes to the institutions of our democracy. And thank God our forefathers were… — Leon Panetta Copy Share Image
“Smoke-ccss-b85b07: Tell me about a time when you did something evil. ABlum: oh gee well sometimes i work too hard is that… — Leonard Richardson Copy Share Image
“So what was in this building before historical materialism?' 'Before what?' 'You know, back then, under the old regime?' 'Oh. Under the… — Ilya Ilf Copy Share Image
“After such knowledge, what forgiveness? Think now History has many cunning passages, contrived corridors And issues, deceives with whispering ambitions, Guides us… — T.S. Eliot Copy Share Image