What a general could do, Thomas did; no more dependable soldier for a moment of crisis existed on the North American continent,… — Bruce Catton Copy Share Image
“This view of the next valley is a view, at one remove, of your own mind, of everybody's mind as it exists… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Thus, it is a political axiom that power follows property. But it is now a historical fact that the means of production… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Not only does the passage of time produce knowledge, it also produces ignorance... As the passage of time removes people with first-hand… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
If you think about the history of the PC industry, the PC industry has essentially been nothing but acquisitions by one company… — Eric Schmidt Copy Share Image
There are people who are trying to write history for the general reader who can be quite tedious. That said, I do… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
But as a philosopher said, one day after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, after all the scientific and… — Sargent Shriver Copy Share Image
Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
“Hollywood was called Tinseltown for a reason and I was caught up in its glitter. My friend Ken seemed to know everyone… — Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater One Copy Share Image
“Postmoderns often accuse Christians of being narrow and closed-minded. But postmodernism is itself confined within a particular strand of Western intellectual history.… — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
“As we grow in grace, we become a blessing to the world around us, and the world, in terms of its relations… — R.J. Rushdoony Copy Share Image
I stand before you today heart broken, I know history and I love this country ...God blessed this country and it took… — Louie Gohmert Copy Share Image
“The word 'Indonesia' was first manufactured in 1850 in the form 'Indu-nesians' by the English traveler and social observer George Samuel Windsor… — R.E. Elson Copy Share Image
Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. Without… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
“This question of grades being coercive, and of politics being inherent in teaching, applies not only to writing, but to all fields.… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
“So carefully considering the text, we can conclude that the construction of the ark did not involve the 120 years mentioned in… — Ken Ham Copy Share Image
“Cumulatively, the sheer volume of papyrus and parchment under-girding sacred Scripture dwarf that of any other work in classical history. Consider, for… — Hank Hanegraaff Copy Share Image
In historic events, the so-called great men are labels giving names to events, and like labels they have but the smallest connection… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Modern scientific knowledge appeared piecemeal. Historians wrote about human history; physicists tackled the material world; and biologists studied the world of living… — David Christian Copy Share Image
The slanders poured down like Niagara. If you take into consideration the setting - the war and the revolution - and the… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
“The irony of American history is the tendency of good white Americanas to presume racial innocence. Ignorance of how we are shaped… — Tim Wise Copy Share Image
However much an ideologue tries to bury [Lenin] beneath a proof by historical analysis, there is always this one man standing their… — Louis Althusser Copy Share Image
“When he returned to Florida in the early part of 1939, Hemingway took his boat the Pilar across the Straits of Florida… — Captain Hank Bracker, "The Exciting Story of Cuba Copy Share Image
Our generation, like the one before us, must choose. Without the threat of the Cold War, without the pain of economic ruin,… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
No doubt Carlyle has a propensity to exaggerate the heroic in history, that is, he creates you an ideal hero rather than… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Geology is rapidly taking its place as an introduction to the higher history of man. If the author has sought to exalt… — James Dwight Dana Copy Share Image
I don't like the definition 'war correspondent'. It is history, not journalism, that has condemned the Middle East to war. I think… — Robert Fisk Copy Share Image
I am delighted to be joining Paris Saint-Germain, a club where so many Brazilians have played and helped write the club's history.… — Marquinhos Copy Share Image
“Today history is no more than a thin thread of the remembered stretching over an ocean of the forgotten, but time moves… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
A multidisciplinary study group ... estimated that it would be 1980 before developments in artificial intelligence make it possible for machines alone… — J. C. R. Licklider Copy Share Image
“Over the years, the British had strategically pitted the Muslims against the Hindus, supporting the All India Muslim League and encouraging the… — Prem Kishore Copy Share Image
The history of ancient and modern republics had taught them that many of the evils which those republics suffered arose from the… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Hillary Clinton made history becoming the first woman to win a major party nomination for president. She's done so even as many… — Audie Cornish Copy Share Image
The history of liberty is the history of limitations on the power of government, not the increase of it. When we resist,… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
In the long term, a robust health IT network will support personalized treatment that adheres to proven best practices, and adapts to… — Sheldon Whitehouse Copy Share Image
There is nothing in either savage or civilized history that is more utterly complete, more remorselessly sweeping than the Father of Mercy´s… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Phil pursed his lips over his fangs. "Are you in league with Public Works, do you have any history with zoëtism, fortune… — Mur Lafferty Copy Share Image
“We know very well that we have ancestors. But our ancestors are not only human. We have animal ancestors; we have plant… — Thích Nhất Hạnh Copy Share Image
“Yet, if the American Negro has arrived at his identity by virtue of the absoluteness of his estrangement from his past, American… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
Every society in the history of man has upheld the institution of marriage as a bond between a man and a woman.… — Rick Santorum Copy Share Image