I've never really seen archaeology as being any different from history. What I love are the stories of human beings that were… — Tony Robinson Copy Share Image
Why shouldn't rap be esoteric, able to take in current events, history and criticism? I guess it's this old idea of containment… — Saul Williams Copy Share Image
Flamboyance and fortitude, femme and butch-not poses, not stereotypes, but a dance between two different kinds of women, one beckoning the other… — Joan Nestle Copy Share Image
One thing that's important to point out is that this kind of populism has a long and mixed history. It's part of… — Astra Taylor Copy Share Image
I love art, and I love history, but it is living art and living history that I love. It is in the… — William Morris Copy Share Image
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“A bad leader wouldn't stress the importance of staying together to stop the enemy. You want peace? You can't forgive the enemy,… — Monet Polny Copy Share Image
“If there is God, then the will is all his, and I cannot get out of his will. If not, the will… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“But if the history of women’s reproductive health demonstrates anything, it is that coercive policies are not only inhumane and unethical, they… — Johanna Schoen Copy Share Image
“As for the history of Father John’s years of imprisonment, what always struck me most about his story was the way in… — Tikhon Shevkunov Copy Share Image
“Advances in technology can be empowering, progressive and enriching. History has shown this across civilisations and societies. But it has also shown,… — Rasheed Ogunlaru Copy Share Image
It has been a fortunate fact in the modern history of physical science that the scientist constructing a new theoretical system has… — R. B. Braithwaite Copy Share Image
His teaching became a turning point in chess history: it was from Steinitz that the era of modern chess began. The contribution… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
The camera has an interest in turning history into spectacle, but none in reversing the process. At best, the picture leaves a… — Denis Donoghue Copy Share Image
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Luke [the gospel writer] screws up his dating by tactlessly mentioning events that historians are capable of independently checking. There was indeed… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
This is what historians usually do, quibble about cause and effect when the point is, there are times when the world is… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Sociologists and historians have avoided looking for the family sources of wars and social violence. Whenever a group produces murderers, the early… — Lloyd deMause Copy Share Image
One dictionary that I consulted remarks that "natural history" now commonly means the study of animals and plants "in a popular and… — Marston Bates Copy Share Image
Endnotes, often confused with footnotes that live at the bottom of a page, is that lump of text at the end of… — Mary Pilon Copy Share Image
Throughout history, adultery has had few rivals as a cause of murder and human misery. The reason we tend to resemble our… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
If you don't understand weapons you don't understand fighting. If you don't understand fighting you don't understand war. If you don't understand… — Jeff Cooper Copy Share Image
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I am writing a book called 'The History of Australia in Hundred Objects.' It's of things we have invented in Australia. And… — Barry Humphries Copy Share Image
I am certainly interested in a tribunal in which, for having used my reason, I was deemed little less than a heretic.… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
Italy is full of historical buildings. And Europe holds a great history of philosophy from Greece until today. I read all those… — Tadao Ando Copy Share Image
Whether consciously or unconsciously, I felt myself drawn to writing a female character who was pretty flawed and not very virtuous or… — Leni Zumas Copy Share Image
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Every time a government minister or spokesman lauds Magna Carta, let us boo or hiss. Shame them. And let us celebrate what… — Guy Standing Copy Share Image
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What we're seeing is a backlash against any attempt, whether from the world of scholarship or popular culture, to paint non-white people… — David Olusoga Copy Share Image
God did not bear the cross only 1900 years ago, but he bears it today, and he dies and is resurrected from… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
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The classical error of historical Christianity is that we have never started with the value of the person. Rather, we have started… — Robert H. Schuller Copy Share Image
Planned parenthood" in the social history of the Western countries is, indeed, a phenomenon instrin-sically related to those very changes in peoples… — Gunnar Myrdal Copy Share Image
“I taught you that there is never any end to that question, because, as I once defined it for you (yes, I… — Graham Swift Copy Share Image
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We are in a war of a peculiar nature. It is not with an ordinary community, which is hostile or friendly as… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
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