“At only two points in human history had knowledge radically expanded on a global scale. Once during the Renaissance, which continued to… — Steve Berry Copy Share Image
“History suggests consumers will adapt fast. In 20 years, miracle cures for the old will come from Japan, the best web apps… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“My emotions were like a crowd. Give ’em what they want. Barabbas or the J-man. There’s gonna be a crucifixion. Well, more… — Trebor Healey Copy Share Image
“Once upon a time in the land of Shinar, God came down to see the city and the tower. People were united… — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
“The very notion of Great Britain's "greatness" is bound up with Empire,' the cultural theorist, Stuart Hall, once wrote: 'Euro-scepticism and littel… — Andrea Levy Copy Share Image
History by apprising them [the people] of the past will enable them to judge of the future. . . . It will… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
History celebrates the battlefields whereon we meet our death, but scorns to speak of the plowed fields whereby we thrive. It knows… — Jean-Henri Fabre Copy Share Image
“To assess the success of the Sistine, we must think in terms of its history, its prime architects, and its contemporary relevance.… — Benjamin Blech Copy Share Image
“One day, we will sit together and remember how we changed things. We will remember the way things used to be, and… — Rachel Higginson Copy Share Image
If you trace the history of Islamist terrorism, you see that its founders were great admirers of European fascism. They read the… — Bernard-Henri Levy Copy Share Image
When I was in high school, I was doing a fashion show, and my House Father would host fashion shows at the… — Mj Rodriguez Copy Share Image
I've never cared that much for cementing my place in history. Sports is so transitory, so ephemeral. It just seems like so… — Billie Jean King Copy Share Image
Love was compressed for all history in that lonely figure on the cross, who said that he could call down angels at… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
If I had to write down the most important people in the history of this planet, No.1 would be (abolitionist) John Brown.… — Dick Gregory Copy Share Image
As the writer of a pseudonymous book, I gave up my own accumulated history as a novelist and became what I had… — Susan Shreve Copy Share Image
“My mother denied later that they treated me like this. She has a very convenient way of forgetting and rearranging the past… — Damien Echols Copy Share Image
The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“And how many ideas have there been upon earth, in human history, which only ten years earlier were unimaginable and which suddenly… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
If one tries to think about history, it seems to me - it's like looking at a range of mountains. And the… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
“The creative artist has something in common with the hero. Though functioning on another plane, he too believes that he has solutions… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“Believing, as they now did, that the heavenly powers took part in human affairs, they became so much absorbed in the cultivation… — Livy Copy Share Image
“Our strategy should be not only to confront empire, but to lay siege to it. To deprive it of oxygen. To shame… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
But history does matter. There is a line connecting the Armenians and the Jews and the Cambodians and the Bosnians and the… — Chris Bohjalian Copy Share Image
“Michael’s generation—its history of fighting disease and bigotry—sometimes made him grumpier than Ben would like him to be, but he knew what… — Armistead Maupin Copy Share Image
I had gradually come, by this time [1839-01], to see that the Old Testament from its manifestly false history of the world,… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“History gives us the facts, sort of, but from literary works we can learn what the past smelled like, sounded like, and… — Scott Herring Copy Share Image
“But I've always been a sucker for a good double entendre; the gap between what is said and what is thought, what… — Meera Syal Copy Share Image
“The book is worth reading, in part because it is enjoyable to read of other people's folly, not to mention their avarice… — Roger Lowenstein Copy Share Image
“12. Historians today rely on classics like Thucydides’ History of the Peloponnesian War, Caesar’s Gallic War, and Tacitus’s Histories. The earliest copies… — Michael S. Horton Copy Share Image
I actually completely suck at being a bioethicist. What I do is history of medicine and patient advocacy. Patient advocacy is actually… — Alice Dreger Copy Share Image
The unfortunate and inescapable historical truth is that those in government - from both parties and with a few courageous exceptions -… — Andrew Napolitano Copy Share Image
Its a sorry statement about how broken Washington is that we could not take advantage of this unique and sad moment in… — Senator John Kerry Copy Share Image
“Differing historical perspectives inevitably shape attitudes towards globalization and its sub-plots. The Western view of globalization has always been just that: a… — Stephen D. King Copy Share Image
The historian of science may be tempted to claim that when paradigms change, the world itself changes with them. Led by a… — Thomas Kuhn Copy Share Image
“How do you build a history based on ceaseless self-slaughter and betrayal? Do you deny it? Forget it? But then you are… — Peter Pomerantsev Copy Share Image
“In other words, Hitler's soul life was not mature enough at that moment to maintain an awareness of himself and his surroundings… — Trevor Ravenscroft Copy Share Image
I have a new theory of history, which is certain things happen because they seem like a good idea at the time.… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
The two ethnic groups that remain fundamentally different from the Han Chinese - in terms of history, culture, language, religion and physical… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
Remember: we all get what we tolerate. So stop tolerating excuses within yourself, limiting beliefs of the past, or half-assed or fearful… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
I think it's important for History to keep experimenting with their shows. The more documentary-driven, the returning series, are the bottom of… — Nancy Dubuc Copy Share Image
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