I've always felt that the poems I've written which have historical context are hopefully not just simply plucking something out of history… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
History fades into fable; fact becomes clouded with doubt and controversy; the inscription molders from the tablet: the statue falls from the… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
“That figure stood for a long time wholly in the light; this arose from a certain legendary dimness evolved by the majority… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
I am a lay historian by nature. I seek out an empirical reflection of what truth is. I sort of want dates… — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
“Alas, my child,’ he said, ‘human knowledge is very limited and when I have taught you mathematics, physics, history and the three… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
Walt Disney’s Mickey Mouse... by Floyd Gottfredson will be warmly received by comics aficionados but should also intrigue Disney animation buffs who… — Leonard Maltin Copy Share Image
“Isn't forgiveness a holy virtue? And if so, then why do we insist on keeping historical records of resentment? Is the Creator… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
If democracy were to be given any meaning, if it were to go beyond the limits of capitalism and nationalism, this would… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“Kant was right; morality did in the eighteenth century, as a matter of historical fact, presuppose something very like the teleological scheme… — Alasdair C. MacIntyre Copy Share Image
“Everyone is always doing as well as they can within their personal limitations, their personal history, what they know and don't know… — Carl Alasko Copy Share Image
The significance of Columbus's discovery was that on a round earth, humanity is more interconnected than on a flat one. On a… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
Nothing is more clear than that Christ cannot be explained by any humanistic system. He does not fit into any theory of… — Loraine Boettner Copy Share Image
“I do wish to run, seize this greatest time in all the history of man to be alive, stuff my senses with… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Anybody who comes to the cinema is bringing they're whole sexual history, their literary history, their movie literacy, their culture, their language,… — David Cronenberg Copy Share Image
“As a matter of historical fact, Japan has suffered far less from wars, famines, and floods than China, for example, where these… — Alex Kerr Copy Share Image
I think that compared to other politicians who have been put in jail in the past, compared to the human-rights activists in… — Joshua Wong Copy Share Image
“Any acquaintance with recent history made nonsense of any claim that God was on the side of Christian states. As one scholar… — Philip Jenkins Copy Share Image
Barack knows that we are going to have to make sacrifices; we are going to have to change our conversation; we're going… — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
I suppose I felt doomed to be an artist early on because of the way I drew all over the books that… — Nancy Spero Copy Share Image
'A People's History of the United States' was actually a very big book for me. I read it in high school, and… — Greta Gerwig Copy Share Image
So we come together before you on this day, March 30th, 2015, with one voice in unity in the hopes that today… — Alicia Keys Copy Share Image
Evolution, dismissed as a sloppy programmer, has seen fit to create us as a wild amalgam of everything that came before us:… — Ellen Ullman Copy Share Image
Where we're telling the story of the history of the ensemblist [in the "Ensemblist Essentials"], using the nine musicals that have won… — Nikka Graff Lanzarone Copy Share Image
“The portraits, of more historical than artistic interest, had gone; and tapestry, full of the blue and bronze of peacocks, fell over… — W.B. Yeats Copy Share Image
Thus we behold Kentucky, lately an howling wilderness, the habitation of savages and wild beasts, become a fruitful field; this region, so… — Daniel Boone Copy Share Image
“There are no lessons to be learned from the past. This is the first thing I learned from it. There is nothing… — Tom Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
“If you don't recognize your own crimes, there's no impediment to continuing them. There's a pretty dramatic example of that right at… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“For most of their history in China, Pugs were treasured dogs. By law, they could only be owned by nobility or by… — Liz Palika Copy Share Image
I give a shy smile. They are staring at me and I start to feel self conscious. I have a god feeling… — Jade Copy Share Image
The Jews were destroying both Greeks and Romans. They ate the flesh of their victims, made belts for themselves out of their… — Cassius Dio Copy Share Image
“It is not that the historian can avoid emphasis of some facts and not of others. This is as natural to him… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Karl Marx did not call for an opposition to the forces of history. On the contrary he accepted all of them, the… — Robert Heilbroner Copy Share Image
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“You hear it in every political speech, “vote for me, we’ll get the dream back.” They all reiterate it in similar words—you… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There's no one place a virus goes to die - but that doesn't make its demise any less a public health victory.… — Jeffrey Kluger Copy Share Image
“The Earth is 4.54 billion years old. A span of time that big is too mind-boggling to comprehend, so let’s collapse the… — Ed Yong Copy Share Image
With the Fall all became abnormal. It is not just that the individual is separated from God by his true moral guilt,… — Francis Schaeffer Copy Share Image
Better treatment and detection methods have also improved the survival rate for people with cancer, and for the first time in history,… — Ike Skelton Copy Share Image
I started going out with one of my managers and he really grew me up in a lot of ways. He introduced… — Dar Williams Copy Share Image
It was clear to me that the forms of consciousness of our inherited and acquired historical education - aesthetic consciousness and historical… — Hans-Georg Gadamer Copy Share Image
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