[People] are trying to - they're trying to create something that solves a series of very complex problems inside of them or… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
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If music in general is an imitation of history, opera in particular is an imitation of human willfulness; it is rooted in… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
I do miss the excitement of seeing history up close, of having intimate knowledge, through direct experience, of what happens when people… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Military history is essential to understanding any history and, moreover, is a terrifying and sobering study in the realities of human nature… — Lawrence Osborne Copy Share Image
The arts community is generally dominated by liberals because if you are concerned mainly with painting or sculpture, you don't have time… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
For me, seeing our history told in this light, the ones who did rebel, the ones who did revolt, the revolutionaries, excited… — Jurnee Smollett Copy Share Image
Our enemies must not deceive themselves-in the 2,000 years of German history known to us, our people have never been more united… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
The most common characteristic of women's history is to be lost and discovered, lost again and rediscovered, lost once more and re-rediscovered… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Our memory is made up of our individual memories and our collective memories. The two are intimately linked. And history is our… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“The God who is ever uttering himself in the changeful profusions of nature; who takes millions of years to form a soul… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
“Martel seems to point to the fact that most people are engaged in forms of self-deception or revisionist history, reworking the narrative… — Melissa A. Fitch Copy Share Image
Great abilites are not requisitefor an Historian; for in historical composition, all thegreatest powers of the humanmind are quiescent. He has facts… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“If word got out that anyone was moving soldiers, they could expect a tuman to turn up on the horizon. Genghis was… — Conn Iggulden Copy Share Image
There's just no - nothing like this country, which is the only, really, multiracial country that's tried to share in a common… — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
“People enter politics or the Civil Service out of a desire to exert power and influence events; this, I maintain, is an… — Auberon Waugh Copy Share Image
“To achieve historical creativity many other conditions must be met. For instance, you must be lucky, for to excel in some domains… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
“The ICC [Interstate Commerce Commission] illustrates what might be called the natural history of government intervention. A real or fancied evil leads… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Everybody fights for money, of course, but I wanted to leave a legacy when I retired, get my name in the history.… — Jose Aldo Copy Share Image
Those of us who write and study history are accustomed to its approximations and ambiguities. This is why we do not take… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Throughout our history, Microsoft has won by making big, bold bets. I believe that now is not the time to scale back… — Steve Ballmer Copy Share Image
When the coherence of the parts of a stone, or even that composition of parts which renders it extended; when these familiar… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“The difference between the past and the present is that individual freedom and security no longer fall to be protected solely through… — Pius Langa Copy Share Image
“But I know now that isn’t true; history is filled with fictional people. And even the epigraph Fitzgerald placed at the beginning… — Robyn Schneider Copy Share Image
Whatever the history of U.S. intervention in Iraq, our priorities now should be to protect our people and defend our national security… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
When you look at the paintings at Chauvet Cave, they're not primitive or like children's little scribbles, it bursts on the scene… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
Parallel to the training of the body a struggle against the poisoning of the soul must begin. Our whole public life today… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
The worst team in baseball's history won only 55 games. The best team ever won 110 out of 160, so you're virtually… — Tommy Lasorda Copy Share Image
Im not good at english but I can tell you I love you, I'm not good at geography but I an tel… — Anastasia Copy Share Image
Born Losers is a beautiful piece of writing. Scott Sandage is history's Dickens; his bleak house, the late nineteenth century world of… — William S. McFeely Copy Share Image
Recalling some of the most spectacular horrors of history - the burning of heretics and witches at the stake, the wholesale massacre… — Savitri Devi Copy Share Image
“Some authors have argued that a direct historical line can be drawn to Nazism from the French Revolution of 1789, the Jacobin… — Richard J. Evans Copy Share Image
But you have to understand what that really did is that it opened these DVDs to be sources of oral history instead… — Nicholas Meyer Copy Share Image
... we will hope that future historians will explain the morbid symptoms of present-day society as the childhood ailments of an aspiring… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
At AT&T, I learned an awful lot about people, and how important it is to have the right people in the right… — Edward Whitacre, Jr Copy Share Image
The history of science, like the history of all human ideas, is a history of irresponsible dreams, of obstinacy, and of error.… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
The term of life of a dynasty does not normally exceed three generations. For in the first generation are still preserved the… — Ibn Khaldun Copy Share Image
...Baltimore. It's imperfect. Boy, is it imperfect. And there are parts of its past that make you wince. It's not all marble… — Laura Lippman Copy Share Image
“There are also generational knowledges in play, accessed and skilled within a history of televisual experiments in educational entertainment. For US academics… — Katie King Copy Share Image