“The cross is the crux, the crossroads, the twisted knot at the center of reality, to which all previous history leads and… — Peter Leithart Copy Share Image
Even if someone knew the entire physical history of the world, and every mental event were identical with a physical, it would… — Donald Davidson Copy Share Image
The history of interactions among disparate peoples is what shaped the modern world through conquest, epidemics and genocide. Those collisions created reverberations… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
It is a standing source of astonishment and amusement to visitors that the British Museum has so few British things in it:… — Neil MacGregor Copy Share Image
Though the island of Great Britain exhibits but a small spot upon the map of the globe, it makes a splendid appearance… — John Newton Copy Share Image
Organizations are accumulations of historical debris. They are not consciously thought. So when you ask the Education Ministry 'What's your core function… — Ashraf Ghani Copy Share Image
The socialist system will eventually replace the capitalist system; this is an objective law independent of man's will. However much the reactionaries… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
Adolescence is a relatively recent thing in human history -- a period of years between the constraints of childhood and the responsibilities… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“...I believe that nothing that once was can be completely undone. Even if destroyed in the material world and forgotten by men,… — Paul O. Kristeller Copy Share Image
There are things about organized religion which I resent. Christ is revered as the Prince of Peace, but more blood has been… — Frank Sinatra Copy Share Image
“The theory is that immersion in the history of one's own group will overcome feelings of racial inferiority both by instilling pride… — Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr Copy Share Image
And yet, strange to say, now that the truth [of natural selection] is recognized by most cultivated people...now more than ever, in… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
“Ratio became a working hypothesis, a heuristic principle, and thus led to the incomparable rise of technology. This was something fundamentally new… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“Today, many whites oppose all social reform as "welfare programs for blacks." They ignore the fact that poor whites have employment, education,… — Derrick Bell Copy Share Image
“Borders are the single biggest cause of discrimination in all of world history. Inequality gaps between people living in the same country… — Rutger Bregman Copy Share Image
Very few people know that there is a whole school of historians that have existed in the United States from the 1940s… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
“The real reason for Father Braganza's laughter was the history of Amrapur. It was a quaint town, nestled amidst barren mountains. The… — Rohit Gore Copy Share Image
“All cultures in human history have believed in God and an afterlife in eternity. There is an interesting story told about the… — Grant R. Jeffrey Copy Share Image
The idea of getting old and dying, falling apart, does not sound fun at all to me, but it's an observation that… — Michael C. McMillen Copy Share Image
Paris was a universe whole and entire unto herself, hollowed and fashioned by history; so she seemed in this age of Napoleon… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
My goal is to become the best person I can, and in the process of doing so, I believe, I can help… — Dominick Cruz Copy Share Image
With the establishment of a relationship of oppression, violence has already begun. Never in history has violence been initiated by the oppressed.… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
“Those were her best days, although there was always something feckless about her, something so slack and almost fearful in her too… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
The oneness of the universe, and the oneness of each element of the universe, repeat themselves to the crack of doom in… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
I was always drawn to performing, but I never thought I could. I have no idea what I wanted to do outside… — Billy Crystal Copy Share Image
You know, I think the, the crucial thing, you know, we have put in place what is, is just simply the biggest,… — Christina Romer Copy Share Image
I am a National Football League player of American Samoan heritage. Because of my status as a professional athlete, I have been… — Troy Polamalu Copy Share Image
“For there was need once more of a Divine Revelation to the torpid frivolous children of men, if they were not to… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The history of the Internet is, in part, a series of opportunities missed: the major record labels let Apple take over the… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
“Already we know almost literally nothing about the Revolution and the years before the Revolution. Every record has been destroyed or falsified,… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“C.S. Lewis is famous for many things, among them coining the phrase "chronological snobbery." The phrase refers to the all-too-common tendency among… — Kevin DeYoung Copy Share Image
“True thinking takes place within a frame of continuous historical development in which progress in understanding is being made. . . .… — T.F. Torrance Copy Share Image
When we censor our history by disguising our scars, we belittle this process and the struggles our ancestors fought so hard to… — Markwayne Mullin Copy Share Image
America had shifted from what influential cultural historian Warren Susman called a culture of character to a culture of personality, and opened… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
Playboy has a long history of high-quality interviews along with the objectification of women, and so I think she does have a… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
But the history of the changes produced by a universal idea is not a history of changes in the individual, but of… — Lafcadio Hearn Copy Share Image
The history of Christianity would have been far happier if we all had remembered one rule of intelligence -- not to believe… — Charles Williams Copy Share Image
My father is a gypsy. He traveled in caravans and was branded by the Ku Klux Klan. You know I have a… — Amber Hollibaugh Copy Share Image
“The historical irony is that European Christians coming to the Americas were escaping highly stratified and intolerant societies; in North America they… — Steven Charleston Copy Share Image
“Very often the test of one's allegiance to a cause or to a people is precisely the willingness to stay the course… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
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