“As we know from the study of history, no new system can impose itself upon a previous one without incorporating many of… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
They knew that to put God in the constitution was to put man out. They knew that the recognition of a Deity… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“And once upon a time I wondered: Is writing epic fantasy not somehow a betrayal? Did I not somehow do a disservice… — N.K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
I am not one of those who believe - broadly speaking - that women are better than men. We have not wrecked… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
“An editor doesn't just read, he reads well , and reading well is a creative, powerful act. The ancients knew this and… — Susan Bell Copy Share Image
“The people who criticize me are ignorant of what history is, because the very fact that the student of history chooses what… — Teodoro A. Agoncillo Copy Share Image
When I was single I used to list the qualities that I would need in my first love. Then one ordinary day… — Mike Bliss Copy Share Image
As I take man's last step from the surface, back home for some time to come...I'd like to just (say) what I… — Gene Cernan Copy Share Image
“Mort thought that history was thrashing around like a steel hawser with the tension off, twanging backwards and forwards across reality in… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“10 fundamental lessons of history: 1. We do not learn from history. 2. Science and technology do not make us immune to… — J. Rufus Fears Copy Share Image
As we sat there staring at the view of the woods I looked over to see Starks eyes were that weird goldish… — Jades Journey Copy Share Image
“Too much faith is the worst ally. When you believe in something literally, through your faith you'll turn it into something absurd.… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
The history of the welfare state is the history of public enterprise pushing out private organization. The impact was largely unintentional, but… — Doug Bandow Copy Share Image
“He pursed his lips and gazed at me reproachfully for throwing our seventh-grade history in his face,times two. back then he'd brought… — Jennifer Echols Copy Share Image
“To understand the Universe, we must guide our children and children of children to keep exploring the history because one life is… — Manas Swain Copy Share Image
To be inducted into the Hall of Fame is a huge honor for any one person in this industry. It not only… — Mickie James Copy Share Image
I am the very model of a modern Major-General, I've information vegetable, animal, and mineral, I know the kings of England, and… — W. S. Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Though integration was a major pivot in the history of the black athlete, it was not for the positive reasons we so… — William C. Rhoden Copy Share Image
A living man can be enslaved and reduced to the historic condition of an object. But if he dies in refusing to… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The autobiographer looks at life through the lens of his or her own life and really uses herself or himself as the… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I have no intention of selling any more of the historical Apollo 11 items in my possession for the remainder of my… — Buzz Aldrin Copy Share Image
Fiction is a very powerful tool for teaching history. The Philippines was the first Iraq, the first Vietnam, the first Afghanistan, in… — Miguel Syjuco Copy Share Image
“I believe, therefore, that although it is not the case today, that there may some day come a time, I should hope,… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
The six thousand years of human history form but a portion of the geologic day that is passing over us: they do… — Hugh Miller Copy Share Image
“Without death there is little innovation. Extinction - death of a species - is part and parcel of evolutionary change. In the… — Richard Fortey Copy Share Image
Natural history is a matter of observation; it is a harvest which you gather when and where you find it growing. Birds… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
Though knowledge itself increasingly ignores boundaries between fields, professors are apt to organize their pedagogy around the methods and history of their… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
It's roughly the case that if systems become too complex to study in sufficient depth, physics hands them over to chemistry, then… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
These men were very much in the minority, but of course, being the 'Elect', they expected to be in a minority -… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
In the post-Soviet era, the most interesting work on the Stalinist period has been social history, far beyond the Kremlin walls -… — Keith Gessen Copy Share Image
If you take a look at our natural history, there's always a moment where the young lion wants to challenge the older… — Kiefer Sutherland Copy Share Image
Alexander von Humboldt’s wide-ranging Views of Nature is a masterpiece of nineteenth-century natural history, at once science and art. Mark W. Person’s… — Daniel Walker Howe Copy Share Image
It has been said, "History is written by the victors." I take this to mean we can make ourselves victorious by writing,… — Jennifer Beals Copy Share Image
“On present-day Earth we have the most Christ-like nation in human history, a civilization built on loving kindness and demilitarization. They are… — Doug Ten Rose Copy Share Image
When you look at the gladiator times or at any of the things in human history, people are and have always been… — Rosario Dawson Copy Share Image
All those instances to be found in history, whether real or fabulous, of a doubtful public spirit, at which morality is perplexed,… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Our ability to look back on the past, our need or desire to make sense of it, is both a blessing and… — James Robertson Copy Share Image
“We can always be sure of one thing—that the messengers of discomfort and sacrifice will be stoned and pelted by those who… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Evidence is always partial. Facts are not truth, though they are part of it – information is not knowledge. And history is… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“...he never so much as looks at me. He just sits there reading his old history books, that really gets me. I… — Sophie Divry Copy Share Image
