There is no greater power on this earth than story.” Will paced the length of the room. “People think boundaries and borders… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
Obamacare's not imploding. The main goal of Obamacare was two-fold. One was to cover the uninsured, of which we've covered 20 million,… — Jonathan Gruber Copy Share Image
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For me, the historical and genealogical library is the one I use. I'm working on, I'll say, it's a time travel novel.… — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image
There is a long history of monetary experience. It tells us that government is at heart a counterfeiter and therefore cannot be… — Garet Garrett Copy Share Image
“What I ask my white students to do, and what I ask of you, my dear friends, is to try, the best… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
If we continue to tell ourselves the popular myths about racial progress or, worse yet, if we say to ourselves that the… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“History has shown time and time again that there is no such thing as all things being equal. That is why Jefferson… — Ziad K. Abdelnour Copy Share Image
“the issue in historical explanation is to explain the character and not the mere occurrence of events. A historical event is not… — Terry Nardin Copy Share Image
“As historian Lerone Bennett Jr. eloquently reminds us, 'A nation is a choice.' We could choose to be a nation that extends… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“Thanks to this availability of suitable wild mammals and plants, early peoples of the Fertile Crescent could quickly assemble a potent and… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
“It has been observed that I show hardly any interest in talking about myself. It is hard for me to disentangle my… — Victor Serge Copy Share Image
There are certainly statistics which show that most people who become sociopaths, who become homicidal, who become child- abusers, have had a… — Connie Zweig Copy Share Image
Remember, when YouTube was founded in the U.S., America's Funniest Home Videos had been around for a long time. In China, the… — Victor Koo Copy Share Image
“But surely everyone can also testify to another, less reckonable kind of homesickness, one having to do with unsettlements that cannot be… — Joseph O'Neill Copy Share Image
I taught world history. I understand there was an Ice Age... seasons come and seasons go. I do not believe the world's… — John Shimkus Copy Share Image
“Everything is really something else in disguise. Of course she was no exception, she reminded herself. Everybody would assume that she was… — Frances Hardinge Copy Share Image
Historic accounts of the lives of great masters have told of rainbows and other special signs, like the rain of flowers, and… — Jamgon Kongtrul Copy Share Image
Fall forward. Here's what I mean: Reggie Jackson struck out 2,600 times in his career - the most in the history of… — Denzel Washington Copy Share Image
It is important to note that multiculturalism does not share the postmodernist stance. Its passions are political; its assumptionsempirical; its conception of… — Joyce Appleby Copy Share Image
I like to define biology as the history of the earth and all its life - past, present, and future. To understand… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
Here in Pennsylvania, we have it all - from top tier sports and events, award-winning restaurants, incredible hikes and state parks, and… — Josh Shapiro Copy Share Image
At the beginning of my career as a writer, I felt I knew nothing of Chinese culture. I was writing about emotional… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
“The history of the world? Just voices echoing in the dark; images that burn for a few centuries and then fade; stories,… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
Let no one ever shy away from the claim that Jews have power, that Jews have influence. We have learned the terrible… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
I'm sure that a previous generation of Jews who published radical newspapers and journals would be critical of [David] Simon's projects. These… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
Whenever you're writing a book or creating a movie or a game, your first task is to get the reader/audience/player to suspend… — R. A. Salvatore Copy Share Image
The history of the church has been largely a history of "believers" refusing to believe in the way of the crucified Nazarene… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
While every historical era has its unique appeal as a setting for tales of crime and detection, the 19th century is exceptional… — Sarah Weinman Copy Share Image
In the second century of the Christian era, the Empire of Rome comprehended the fairest part of the earth, and the most… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“It is harder for queens, who have no luxury of meekness. History does not know how to reconcile our ambition or our… — Tosca Lee Copy Share Image
“Two fateful questions interpret more than eleven hundred years of Russian history: “What is to be done?” and “Who is to blame?”… — Matt Fulton Copy Share Image
We should put in place a simple, straightforward and accessible way for parents of Dreamers and others with a history of service… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Often the mass emotions are those which seem the noblest, best and most beautiful. And yet, inside a year, five years, a… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
A lot of the people in history who I really admire lived before the hyperinformation age we're living in. Even if they… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
When you say you're from Virginia, when you travel outside of this state and somebody asks where you're from, you say with… — Corey Stewart Copy Share Image
“Is it surprising that the people could see their fate and that of the world only as an endless succession of evils?… — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
Today, energy prices are at historic highs. Some analysts estimate that energy price shocks this year could cost American consumers more than… — Jeff Bingaman Copy Share Image
“Most of the Bible is a history told by people living in lands occupied by conquering superpowers. It is a book written… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
It is the same game that Moonlight Graham played in 1905. It is a living part of history, like calico dresses, stone… — W. P. Kinsella Copy Share Image
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