“As one reads history, not in the expurgated editions written for schoolboys and passmen, but in the original authorities of each time,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“The nineteenth century was the Age of Romanticism; for the first time in history, man stopped thinking of himself as an animal… — Colin Wilson Copy Share Image
Anyway, in 1966, Daddy had started to attack Lyndon Johnson on the war in Vietnam. Lyndon Johnson was a good man. Even… — Martin Luther King III Copy Share Image
“If you help load a cart you get a ride in it, as often as not. It gives him to think, how… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
Love is understood, in a historical way, as one of the great human vocations - but its counterspell has always been infidelity.… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
“That was my story. Or at least the way I remember it. What happened to those characters and the places that had… — María Dueñas Copy Share Image
Carmen hated the 'life is too short" rationalization. She thought it was one of the lamer excuses in the history of excuse-making.… — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
Capablanca possessed an amazing ability to quickly see into a position and intuitively grasp its main features. His style, one of the… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
The American people are beginning to see the Republicans' willingness to trample over 200 years of history, to step on the minority,… — Barbara Boxer Copy Share Image
“The derivation of the historical law of increasing misery is thus invalid. All that remains is a moving description of the misery… — Karl R. Popper Copy Share Image
“the moment for what it was: the culmination of the greatest political event in the history of our republic. It was certainly… — Corey R. Lewandowski Copy Share Image
“Real history was unromantic, steeped in greed and blood and abject eye-rolling stupidity. An endless parade of putative Ozymandiases marching off to… — Jonathan L. Howard Copy Share Image
Once again a new world view is arising ... This idea is the culmination of all human history. It holds the promise… — Barbara Marx Hubbard Copy Share Image
“History reveals that times of suffering for the church have also been times of looking upward. Tribulation has always sobered God’s people… — A.W. Tozer Copy Share Image
“Nature is the birthright of everyone on Earth. The millions of species we have allowed to survive are our phylogenetic kin. Their… — Edward O. Wilson Copy Share Image
The story of man is the history, first, of the acceptance and imposition of restraints necessary to permit communal life; and second,… — Abe Fortas Copy Share Image
“The cedars 'know the history of the earth better than history itself.' If this was so, it was little wonder that they… — Robert Fisk Copy Share Image
I see myself as, first and above all, a teacher of history; next, a writer of European history; next, a commentator on… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
I find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to write one. Then they find themselves writing… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
The Washington Post is and has been the greatest historic competitor of the New York Times. Half of me, though, the unselfish… — Dean Baquet Copy Share Image
I met Mary [Hamill] in New York at my exhibition and when I told her about my oral history project she asked,… — Chath Piersath Copy Share Image
“The coolies pull them across Howrah bridge, which they share with cars, trucks, bullock carts, a party of young women in saris… — Michael Tobert Copy Share Image
“Merrill Lynch, on the other hand, was a white-shoe firm with a proud history of elitism. Its investment bank was blue-blooded in… — Kevin Roose Copy Share Image
Throughout U.S. history, national crises have been used to suspend constitutional protections and attack basic rights. After the Civil War, with the… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
“Michael King was a young preacher with horn-rimmed glasses and a close-cropped beard and mustache. "The Bible says, if eating meat offends… — Tony Horwitz Copy Share Image
I've always been a history buff. It was one of the few subjects at school that really, really caught me. I think… — Tom Mison Copy Share Image
The philosophy that I have worked under most of my life is that the serious study of natural history is an activity… — Roger Tory Peterson Copy Share Image
“the point of kintsugi is to treat broken pieces and their repair as part of the history of an object. A break… — Penny Reid Copy Share Image
Congress needs to send a strong signal that direct communication with the leader of the free world is a privilege, particularly for… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
We don't often truly consider the embeddedness of black folks in the American imaginary. America would not exist in its current form… — RaMell Ross Copy Share Image
...scientific power is like inherited wealth: attained without discipline. You read what others have done, and you take the next step. You… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
I thought if I was going to live a life in this land I was accidentally born on, I must people it;… — Sebastian Barry Copy Share Image
“I stood with my hands on the horses' necks, feeling the electricity of their thinking, the blood moving throughout their veins, and… — Bethanne Elion Copy Share Image
Look rather at the teachings of history, true history, not the history written by Party hacks: genuine democracy, the only valid democracy,… — Wei Jingsheng Copy Share Image
“The point of history, the very essence of it as a field of study, is to find correspondences. You look at the… — M.R. Carey Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I get mail for people who lived in my home before I did, and sometimes my own body seems like a… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“Why don’t you call somebody with the Coeur d’Alene tribe? A historian or somebody? Or be really crazy and ask one of… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“just because of its promise of unlimited possibilities technology is an empty form like the most formalistic logic and is unable to… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
The most famous line in gastronomic history, 'Let them eat cake', turns out to have been an eighteenth-century cliche. According to Antonia… — Amanda Foreman Copy Share Image
Every person my size has a different life, a different history. Different ways of dealing with it. Just because I'm seemingly O.K.… — Peter Dinklage Copy Share Image
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