Anglo-Saxons have a view that history is ordered and chronological, and I think that fed into the development of the realist middle-class… — Olga Tokarczuk Copy Share Image
How Bush and his junta succeeded in deflecting America's anger from bin Laden to Saddam Hussein is one of the great public… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
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The political terms 'will' and 'popular will' have a long track record in Western history going back to Rousseau. That record is… — John Leo Copy Share Image
Americans, more than most people, believe that history is the result of individual decisions to implement conscious intentions. For Americans, more than… — George Will Copy Share Image
Throughout history there have been many men and women who have chosen to imitate Jesus as he withdraws into the desert... To… — Raniero Cantalamessa Copy Share Image
I have always preferred the company of older people. No one in the history of the world has had less interest in… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
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Of course, all students should learn African history, as they should learn the history of other continents and major civilizations. But this… — Diane Ravitch Copy Share Image
I think by all accounts in the same way we look back on the anti-Catholic and anti-Jewish sentiments of our history with… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
Freedom will not prevail because of historical forces; it will only win, if it does, because of historical actors. In other words,… — Max Boot Copy Share Image
Today’s events are tomorrow’s history, yet events seen by the naked eye lack the depth and breadth of human struggles, triumphs and… — Epifanio de los Santos Copy Share Image
“LOST is often lauded as one of the best fantasy dramas in television history, as well as one of the most cryptic… — Ben East Copy Share Image
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To hear both critics and defenders talk about the fitness of Judge Sonia Sotomayor for the Supreme Court, you'd think the most… — Noah Feldman Copy Share Image
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The risk is that you've got a vast majority of the electorate saying that they believe the country is going seriously in… — Jonathan Karl Copy Share Image
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The complicated, ambiguous milieu of human contact is being replaced with simple, scalable equations. We maintain thousands more friends than any human… — Daniel H. Wilson Copy Share Image
I have to tell you that J.S. Bach was easily the greatest musical innovator in the history of the world. He was… — Brian Wilson Copy Share Image
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Not only is the Napoleonic dream stronger today in our imaginations than it has ever been, but one can already feel the… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
It became a question of taste. I have a certain taste in art history. And that - I had a huge library… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
Every single administration in American political history has put cronies and pals and donors into political positions. But normally those people become… — Irwin Redlener Copy Share Image
emotion clouds the rational, and many perspectives guide the full reality. To view current events as a historian is to account for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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Maybe that's what history is, you go from one I can't believe it the next. And sometimes the I can't believe its… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
“It is important for upcoming activists to study American history, as well as political and philosophical thought. It is unlikely that what… — John Lewis Copy Share Image
“The Scots studied the past to understand the present, and of course improve it. Like the ancient Greeks and the Chinese, they… — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
No matter the specific techniques involved, historically mass surveillance has had several constant attributes. Initially, it is always the country’s dissidents and… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
What a lesson, indeed, is all history and all life to the folly and fruitlessness of pride! The Egyptian kings had their… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
“In 1830, a historic level of 7.5 gallons of absolute alcohol per adult was reached, nearly three times the current average consumption.… — Charles River Editors Copy Share Image
Jesus’ message of the Kingdom of God is the announcement by word and deed that God is acting and manifesting dynamically his… — George Eldon Ladd Copy Share Image
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