Since the middle of the twentieth century, our understanding of the American past has been revolutionized, in no small part because of… — Drew Gilpin Faust Copy Share Image
Our working hypothesis is that the status of knowledge is altered as societies enter what is known as the postindustrial age and… — Jean-Francois Lyotard Copy Share Image
Whenever a copyright law is to be made or altered, then the idiots assemble. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
One of the best ways to change is to act as if you are the person you want to become. When you… — Bernie Siegel Copy Share Image
It's hogwash to say drunkenness is no excuse for crime... Wherever mind altering drugs are on sale to the public, we should… — Steve Fowler Copy Share Image
This is part of the complexity of grief: A piece of you recognizes it is an extreme state, an altered state, yet… — Meghan O'Rourke Copy Share Image
I didn't really inhabit myself until I was in my 30s. And motherhood is an epic event. You can't help but be… — Anne-Marie Duff Copy Share Image
Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I experimented with all possible maneuvers-loops, somersaults and barrel rolls. I stood upside down on one finger and burst out laughing, a… — Jacques Yves Cousteau Copy Share Image
After having produced aquatic animals of all ranks and having caused extensive variations in them by the different environments provided by the… — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck Copy Share Image
This generation has altered the composition of the atmosphere on a global scale through radioactive materials and a steady increase in carbon… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
An altered look about the hills; A Tyrian light the village fills; A wider sunrise in the dawn; A deeper twilight on… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
An old paleontological in joke proclaims that mammalian evolution is a tale told by teeth mating to produce slightly altered descendant teeth. — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Mankind is ever the same, and nothing lost out of nature, though everything is altered. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Virgil is so exact in every word, that none can be changed but for a worse; nor any one removed from its… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
It is not new for the older generation to bewail the indolence of the young, and there is a tendency for the… — David Riesman Copy Share Image
Melbourne is wonderfully altered since I last saw it. There are some very fair buildings in it now, and things are a… — William John Wills Copy Share Image
Secondly, the nature of the revolutions which have altered the surface of the earth must have had a more decisive effect on… — Georges Cuvier Copy Share Image
The passage of time has not altered the capacity of the Redeemer to change lives. — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
Technology is a global thing and wherever you go, people are prodding the same devices and worrying in the same way and… — Charlie Brooker Copy Share Image
Sometimes I feel as if four thousand years of silencing women, of the fear of women who were burned in oil or… — Olympia Dukakis Copy Share Image
The burning of fossil fuels has altered the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere so rapidly and so abundantly that now,… — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
The whole notion of journalism being an institution whose fundamental purpose is to educate and inform and even, one might say, elevate,… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
