Following one of the most violent conflicts in human history, the United States and Japan built a deep and abiding friendship -… — Ben Rhodes Copy Share Image
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David Shi (historian of the simple life) describes the common denominator among the various approaches to simpler living as the understanding that… — Duane Elgin Copy Share Image
Americans are defined by a history of immigration in pursuit of freedom and opportunity. We are more individualistic, enterprising, and protective of… — Jacob Weisberg Copy Share Image
The neutral zone of selective advantage in the neighbourhood of zero is thus so narrow that changes in the environment, and in… — Ronald Fisher Copy Share Image
My historical reading of the situation is that these great monolithic empires developed, Rome, Turkey, and so forth, and they always break… — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
The ideal of faith in ourselves is of the greatest help to us. If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Barack Obama is an elegant and literate man with a cosmopolitan sense of the world. He is widely read in philosophy, literature,… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
Perception plays a vital role in the diagnosis of bipolar illness. Symptoms are perceived through the categories of psychiatric medicine at a… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
I really wanted to write a book [99: Stories of the Game] on the tradition and history of the league, where kids… — Wayne Gretzky Copy Share Image
Julian sincerely abhorred the system of oriental despotism which Diocletian, Constantine, and the patient habits of four score years, had established in… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The Alliance and NATO is two different things. France is a member of the Alliance. NATO is an organization not mentioned in… — Helmut Schmidt Copy Share Image
Does it take a blanket presupposition for a historian to discount some miracle stories as legendary? No, because, as even Bultmann recognized,… — Robert M. Price Copy Share Image
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I am proud of Russia and I am sure that the vast majority of Russian citizens have great love and respect for… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
History does nothing, possesses no enormous wealth, fights no battles. It is rather man, the real, living man, who does everything, possesses,… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
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I try to teach a modernist and postmodernist position. On one hand, if you're a painter, you need to know the history… — Tony Tasset Copy Share Image
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Podcast listening carries with it a faint aura of cultural snobbery, a notion that to cue up an episode is to do… — Michelle Dean Copy Share Image
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I always loved the Yorkshire members and was passionate about playing for the county, but the people who were running the club… — Geoffrey Boycott Copy Share Image
They don't really focus on that history here in America. I remember growing up as a kid, history class was very washed-over.… — Aldis Hodge Copy Share Image
People who teach American history survey classes have a lot of ground to cover and tend to focus on landmarks. You get… — H. W. Brands Copy Share Image
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Nevada contains an extraordinary diversity of outdoor landscapes and recreation experiences. Red Rock Canyon, Black Rock Desert, Lake Tahoe and the Great… — Jacky Rosen Copy Share Image
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Kinship among nations is not determined in such measurements as proximity of size and age. Rather we should turn to those inner… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
If you're going to cheat and take people's history and you're not writing the Bible, you ain't really so great. But if… — James McBride Copy Share Image
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