No single man makes history. History cannot be seen, just as one cannot see grass growing. Wars and revolutions, kings and Robespierres,… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
I learned a lot about American history though jazz, and that's why I loved American history when I was in high school.… — Ron Cephas Jones Copy Share Image
To me, form is not something that you can plan beforehand, especially for a documentary. You can't write it or sketch it.… — Rithy Panh Copy Share Image
Mr. Giuliani's liabilities as a G.O.P. candidate were obvious. There was his well-documented history of cultural liberalism - on abortion, gay rights,… — Steve Kornacki Copy Share Image
“When asked whether or not we are Marxists, our position is the same as that of a physicist, when asked if he… — Ernesto "Che" Guevara Copy Share Image
In expressing briefly my views upon an important subject which has recently agitated the nation..., I fervently hope that the question is… — Franklin Pierce Copy Share Image
“Art never expresses anything but itself. It has an independent life, just as thought has, and develops purely on its own lines… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“ "Turn my back on the world..." the historian repeated softly and slowly, his head moving to face the mage. "Turn my… — Margaret Weis, Tracy Hickman Copy Share Image
Concerned to reconstruct past ideas, historians must approach the generation that held them as the anthropologist approaches an alien culture. They must,… — Thomas Kuhn Copy Share Image
“And that's the last chapter of the history of the world: in which we create, through the workings of the imagination, a… — John Crowley Copy Share Image
You know, we have a long history of covering different periods of this band's development with a live record... a sort of… — Alex Lifeson Copy Share Image
In terms of black music - the only music that we can call our own, that was really born here - I… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
My view of my role is that together with like-minded men and women, I could help contribute to a bipartisan view of… — Henry Kissinger Copy Share Image
Through a historical catastrophe - the destruction of Jerusalem by the emperor of Rome - I was born in one of the… — Shmuel Yosef Agnon Copy Share Image
Bloomberg weighed three hundred pounds. This itself was historical. I revered his weight. It was an affirmation of humanity's reckless potential; it… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
My privilege as a white man, my privilege as the mayor and the leader of the institutions of power in this community… — Ted Wheeler Copy Share Image
Oh, I don't keep a journal. How you remember an incident is dictated by your emotional state at the time. How you… — Alexandra Fuller Copy Share Image
If we choose a weak and foolish speculation as a primary textbook illustration (falsely assuming that the tale possesses a weight of… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“Men recorded their experiences and called it history; men looked about the world and called their observations science; men wondered about the… — Linda Tschirhart Sanford Copy Share Image
Nixon in 1968, unlike Obama 2008, was elected as a minority president with only 43 percent of the vote. Yet, in 1972,… — John Podhoretz Copy Share Image
It is true that of all the states in India, Nagaland has a unique history. We are sensitive to this historical fact.… — Atal Bihari Vajpayee Copy Share Image
The EU is deeply harmful, it is an anti-democratic monster. I want to prevent it from becoming fatter, from continuing to breathe,… — Marine Le Pen Copy Share Image
Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better;… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Intellectual activity in a culture is not a one-way flow between the great minds and passive recipients; it is a discourse, a… — Gordon S. Wood Copy Share Image
“The accepted version of history is that the Federal Reserve was created to stabilize our economy. One of the most widely-used textbooks… — G. Edward Griffin Copy Share Image
“As many times as Hell had been created, history stood as indisputable proof that the mass of humanity was good. People built… — Marcus Sakey Copy Share Image
“Many lessons can be learned from the history of Western civilization, but one of them is especially clear. Lack of involvement in… — Jackson Spielvogel Copy Share Image
“Call it what you like: The Upper Sky, the Unmade, even the Empyrean. Men have given it so many names over the… — Adam McOmber Copy Share Image
Nor is any evidence to be found, either in History or Human Nature, that nations are to be bribed out of a… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Watching Michael Jackson was like taking a history lesson and a lesson on the future at the same time. If that weren’t… — Marcus Miller Copy Share Image
Some princes are born in palaces. Some are born in mangers. But a few are born in the imagination, out of scraps… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
“To recount these histories is like unravelling a thread: one means only to tell one little part, but then another comes in,… — Margaret George Copy Share Image
“Evil is never intended as evil. Indeed, the contradiction inherent in all evil is that it originates in the desire to eliminate… — James P. Carse Copy Share Image
A state does not simply fall apart as a result of depression... [Weimar Germany] was not destroyed by economic depression or widespread… — Sebastian Haffner Copy Share Image
That strain of anti-monopoly crusading egalitarianism really runs throughout American history from [Tomas] Jefferson to Woodrow Wilson, that finds its apotheosis in… — Jeffrey Rosen Copy Share Image
“To survive, Let the past Teach you-- Past customs, Struggles, Leaders and thinkers. Let These Help you. Let them inspire you, Warn… — Octavia E. Butler Copy Share Image
As a Canadian, I've always approached international history as an outsider, neither attacking nor defending key decisions - those were made by… — Margaret MacMillan Copy Share Image
London' is a gallery of sensation of impressions. It is a history of London in a thematic rather than a chronological sense… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
A revival almost always begins among the laity. The ecclesiastical leaders seldom welcome reformation. History repeats itself. The present leaders are too… — Frank Bartleman Copy Share Image
“Humans are capable of so much more. Power mongers like you have stripped away what is most valuable to us, the importance… — Aaron B. Powell Copy Share Image
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