As long as the same passions and interests subsist among mankind, the questions of war and peace, of justice and policy, which… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
I've stepped back a few times and had these crazy epiphanies that we are blessed by having Barack Obama as a candidate… — Eddie Vedder Copy Share Image
The problem is that those of us sympathetic with the plight of indigenous people view them as quaint and colorful, but somehow… — Wade Davis Copy Share Image
I prize my own independence too much. And philosophically, I could never accept any rigid dogma or ideology, whether it's Christianity or… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
It seems to rise again when the crisis times come, and this is a time of most severe crisis, as we all… — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
The rise of the presidency began with the Louisiana Purchase, which in 1803 doubled the land mass of the United States. History… — Noah Feldman Copy Share Image
We can teach about hip-hop history, we can teach about legends, hip-hop theory. It's been around so long that text books can… — Kanye West Copy Share Image
“A spirituality that can contribute to the renewal of the church will be solidly trinitarian, as opposed to a mystical monism in… — Donald G. Bloesch Copy Share Image
Don't give up - our country needs you now more than ever. This is a pivotal moment in the history of our… — Kamala Harris Copy Share Image
I think history is continuous. It doesn't begin or end on Pearl Harbor Day or the day Lyndon Johnson withdraws from the… — Richard Holbrooke Copy Share Image
Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Crown Prince Rupprecht, the heir to the throne of Bavaria who commanded the army group facing the British at the Somme, was… — David Frum Copy Share Image
The history and baggage of certain actors and characters - it goes into the movie and becomes part of it. If Keanu… — Ana Lily Amirpour Copy Share Image
Baseball and American football and hockey are all ahead because they have a history. The MLS is kind of new. So hopefully,… — Thierry Henry Copy Share Image
“We’re not here to argue with you about the wisdom of our alliance that has kept the Persians at bay for forty… — Yvonne Korshak Copy Share Image
Each nation has different obstacles and different goals, shaped by the vagaries of history and of experience. Yet as I talk to… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
The Reverend Douglas Wilson may not be a professional historian, as his detractors say, but he has a strong grasp of the… — Eugene Genovese Copy Share Image
That's one of the central problems of history, isn't it, sir? The question of subjective versus objective interpretation, the fact that we… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
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“This is the lesson history told me: when a religion gets so mired in bureaucracy that compassion takes second place to the… — Mercedes Lackey Copy Share Image
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One thing I do find in the "lost" generation or something is a kind of abhorrence of history, you know, like it's… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
“Living in filth was regarded by great numbers of holy men, who set an example to the Church and to society, as… — Andrew Dickson White Copy Share Image
“Be a wife of whom he can make no complaint, Margaret. That is the best advice I can give to you. You… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
Narcissism and the Confederate dead cannot be connected logically, or even historically; even were the connection an historical fact, they would not… — Allen Tate Copy Share Image
To collude in the minimisation of British history on the grounds of its imagined irrelevance to our rebranded national future, or from… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
In all modern history, interference with science in the supposed interest of religion, no matter how conscientious such interference may have been,… — Andrew Dickson White Copy Share Image
How are fears born? They are born because of differences in tradition and history; they are born because of differences in emotional,… — Ehud Olmert Copy Share Image
I'm not convinced that women have the education or the sense of their own history enough or that they understand the cruelty… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
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Janice Gould is one of our best poets. The music of her poetry will delight you, and her gentle courageous accounts of… — Leslie Marmon Silko Copy Share Image
Doing 'Prometheus' was what you imagine being an actor is like when you're five. In a spacesuit, on another planet, getting killed… — Rafe Spall Copy Share Image
In historical fact, all of history's despots, combined, never managed to get things done as well as this rambunctious, self-critical civilization of… — David Brin Copy Share Image
Throughout history, independent minds have carried mankind forward. Whether they identified how to make fire or manufacture tools, develop rational philosophy or… — Andrew Bernstein Copy Share Image
If you listen to Giuliani, it's like nobody did anything to improve the city except him. I'm not part of the history.… — Ed Koch Copy Share Image
Who claims Truth, Truth abandons. History is hir'd, or coerc'd, only in Interests that must ever prove base. She is too innocent,… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
A spirituality that is only private and self-absorbed, one devoid of an authentic political and social consciousness, does little to halt the… — Andrew Harvey Copy Share Image
I do believe that it's the first time in history that fire has ever melted steel. I do believe that it defies… — Rosie O'Donnell Copy Share Image
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