“Most men have no purpose but to exist, Abraham; to pass quietly through history as minor characters upon a stage they cannot… — Seth Grahame-Smith Copy Share Image
The question Tony Blair should be reflecting on this weekend is having achieved this, having secured his place in the history of… — Robin Cook Copy Share Image
[Michael] Brown's mom, Lesley McSpadden, is the latest African American mother whose tear-streaked face forces the nation to remember the name of… — Jonathan Capehart Copy Share Image
The history of woman is the history of the continued and universal oppression of one sex by the other. The emancipation of… — Tennessee Celeste Claflin Copy Share Image
“The history of Unix should have prepared us for what we’re learning from Linux (and what I’ve verified experimentally on a smaller… — Eric S. Raymond Copy Share Image
Technology is always creating jobs. It's always destroying jobs. But right now the pace is accelerating. It's faster we think than ever… — Erik Brynjolfsson Copy Share Image
We've been co-evolving with our technology for a hundred thousand years. Human beings and the technology we make were always inseparable. We're… — Daniel H. Wilson Copy Share Image
If the history of resistance to Darwinian thinking is a good measure, we can expect that long into the future, long after… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
“Because we are imperfect souls, our knowledge is imperfect. The history of learning is an adventure in overcoming our errors. There is… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“Although distortion of the past is widespread, the most common travesty is one of omission, wherein populist leaders neglect to mention the… — Richard Ashby Wilson Copy Share Image
Seldom in the history of medicine has the recognition of the most effective cure followed as swiftly on the heels of the… — Emil Theodor Kocher Copy Share Image
“Love made us partners in narcissism, and we talked ceaselessly about how close we were, how perfect our connection was, like we… — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
All true histories contain instruction; though, in some, the treasure may be hard to find, and when found, so trivial in quantity,… — Anne Bronte Copy Share Image
Prostitution thrives in the United States. We focus in this country on punishing the girls. For every brothel owner or pimp or… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
True stories are always good because they're so odd, and so unlikely. It's always good to have a world that people don't… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
“The expansionary dynamic of Western culture has been the root, the denominating constant, of modern history. The grandeur of Western liberalism, its… — Carl Oglesby Copy Share Image
“Historians usually focus their attention on the past of countries that still exist, writing hundreds and thousands of books on British history,… — Norman Davies Copy Share Image
One of the big first computers was called SAGE, which was a missile defense, the first missile-defense computer, which was, like, one… — Marc Andreessen Copy Share Image
Our great history has been that people came to Michigan because you didn't have to have a college degree to get a… — Jennifer Granholm Copy Share Image
History balances the frustration of 'how far we have to go' with the satisfaction of 'how far we have come.' It teaches… — Lewis F. Powell, Jr Copy Share Image
“What Tyler says about the crap and the slaves of history, that's how I felt. I wanted to destroy something beautiful I'd… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
It has become too easy to see that the luckless men of the past lived by mistakes, even absurd beliefs, so we… — Herbert J. Muller Copy Share Image
I look at the natural geological record as a history of the world imperfectly kept and written in a changing dialect; of… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Those who have read history with discrimination know the fallacy of those panegyrics and invectives which represent individuals as effecting great moral… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
You don't want to be first, right? You want to be second or third. You don't want to be - Facebook is… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
“Our City has a rich history, even though many tourists are only wanting to see the Red Light District. Some tourists think… — John Green Copy Share Image
If I can educate a little, that's great; if I can cause somebody to go and seek out further information about Lincoln,… — Noah Van Sciver Copy Share Image
Combining in our survey then, the whole range of deposits from the most recent to the most ancient group, how striking a… — Roderick Murchison Copy Share Image
“Imperialism has not allowed us to achieve historical normality,’ Octavio Paz lamented in The Labyrinth of Solitude (1950). Paz was surveying the… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
I still think, perhaps I'm a bit old fashioned - that truth matters. I think truth matters particularly when it concerns an… — David Irving Copy Share Image
Forever we fight but never improve Today it is friendship, tomorrow the news That after everything is said and done We look… — Sam West Copy Share Image
“That's how history unfolds. People weave a web of meaning, believe in it with all their heart, but sooner or later the… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
The barbarians of Germany had felt, and still dreaded, the arms of the young Caesar; his soldiers were the companions of his… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The deciphering of ancient scripts changed forever the way Europeans were able to imagine the story of humanity, destroying centuries of received… — Neil MacGregor Copy Share Image
“...The arbitrary power of the Government is unlimited, and unexampled in history; freedom of the Press, of opinion and of movement are… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
What creates freedom? A revolution in the streets? Mass protest? Civil war? A change of government? The ousting of the old guard… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
England has a long history of supporting alternative medicine - maybe it's because they don't have such a strong pharmaceutical industry in… — Dasha Zhukova Copy Share Image
“In every age of human history and in every phase of daily life demons have played a tremendous and very important role.… — Mark Hitchcock Copy Share Image
If you look at history, there seems to be a regular pattern: the country with the most powerful military also happens to… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
History is a story like any other, but black history is a story so devoid of logic that it frustrates the young… — Rumaan Alam Copy Share Image
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