If a man wishes to have God recognized in the constitution of our country, let him read the history of the Inquisition,… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
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Exploration belongs to the Renaissance, travel to the bourgeois age, tourism to our proletarian moment.The explorer seeks theundiscovered, the traveler that which… — Paul Fussell Copy Share Image
“this is the crime of which I accuse my country and my countrymen, and for which neither I nor time nor history… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
Revisionist historians are about to get their hands on the Thatcher years, shes probably going to be looked at again because she… — Jonathan Coe Copy Share Image
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We were essentially torn from the Gaian womb, thrust into the birth canal of history, and expelled sometime around the fall of… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
On one hand you have a string quartet, which is not a symphony. On the other hand is you have me sampling… — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
The library will endure; it is the universe... We walk the corridors, searching the shelves and rearranging them, looking for lines of… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
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History demonstrates that previous military drawdowns invited aggression by our enemies. After World War I, America drew down forces until the U.S.… — Frank Gaffney Copy Share Image
New York has an amazing history of farming and fishing that goes right back to the Pilgrim Fathers. At its core are… — Daniel Boulud Copy Share Image
It is a terrible commentary on Christian civilization that the longest period of slave-raiding known to history was initiated by the action… — H. A. L. Fisher Copy Share Image
The history of science shows that the progress of science has constantly been hampered by the tyrannical influence of certain conceptions that… — Louis de Broglie Copy Share Image
Deeply versed in history, [John Adams] said over and over that America had no special providence, no special role in history, that… — Gordon S. Wood Copy Share Image
The meaning of geography is as much a sealed book to the person of ordinary intelligence and education as the meaning of… — William Morris Davis Copy Share Image
Anyone can look to someone like Ruby Bridges and be inspired. We wanted to emphasize that this really is all of our… — Big E Copy Share Image
I feel that we're dividing along class lines for the first time in our history. Now one thing that has happened in… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
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Of all our studies, history is best qualified to reward our research. And when you see that you've got problems, all you… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
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People still knew me as Charles, so when I came across Charlemagne in a history book, that sounded good: Charles the Great,… — Charlamagne tha God Copy Share Image
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Agency is the power to think, choose, and act for ourselves. It comes with endless opportunities, accompanied by responsibility and consequences. It… — Sharon G. Larsen Copy Share Image
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