The ancients had little doubt about the true shape of the earth: "It's [the world's] shape has the rounded appearance of a… — Pliny the Elder Copy Share Image
We don't propose to sit here in our rocking chair with our hands folded and let the Communists set up any government… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Now is the time for the U.S. and the nations of Western Europe who engaged in the slave trade throughout this hemisphere… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All the elements will be seen mixed together in a great whirling mass, now borne towards the centre of the world, now… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Part of the history of black people in the western hemisphere, in some ways, has been fleeing from this notion that they… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
If there are greater activities in Vesuvius or Pelee, then the southern coast of California and the areas between Salt Lake and… — Edgar Cayce Copy Share Image
I'm a huge fan of Canadian rock-and-roll. When I was growing up, Rush came out with a record called Hemispheres, and I… — Kiefer Sutherland Copy Share Image
There was a hemispheric conference in Colombia. It couldn't reach a consensus, so there was no declaration that came out, [but] on… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The name of the author is the first to go followed obediently by the title, the plot, the heartbreaking conclusion, the entire… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
Today the average inhabitant of the western hemisphere knows a little of everything. He has the newspaper on his breakfast table and… — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
For the better part of two centuries, outsiders have been offering explanations that range from racist to learned-sounding - the supposed inferiority… — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
If America was trying to keep the bubonic plague out of its hemisphere, Canadians would import it just to show their independence… — Barbara Amiel Copy Share Image
Our goal is not victory of might but the vindication of right - not peace at the expense of freedom, but both… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All travel is circular. I had been jerked through Asia, making a parabola on one of the planet's hemispheres. After all, the… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
Look at the ozone story. As long as it was the southern hemisphere that was being threatened, there was very little talk… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The American sense of the importance, the fundamental importance of the black-white dichotomy, comes out of societies founded in the era of… — Nell Irvin Painter Copy Share Image
Hardly anyone has noticed that in the Northern Hemisphere people stir their drinks counterclockwise, whereas the same people stir their drinks clockwise… — John McCarthy Copy Share Image
I open with a clock striking, to beget an awful attention in the audience - it also marks the time, which is… — Richard Brinsley Sheridan Copy Share Image
The left hemisphere is very interested in language; it communicates in words, it has a past, a present, and a future; it… — Jill Bolte Taylor Copy Share Image
That hemisphere of the moon which faces us is better known than the earth itself; its vast desert plains have been surveyed… — Camille Flammarion Copy Share Image
At one time, the earth was supposed to be flat. Well, so it is, even today, from Paris to Asnieres. But that… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Now if we can get white population, immigrants and big companies and so on moving into Africa and if we can get… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
Christopher Columbus introduced two phenomena that revolutionized race relations and transformed the modern world: the taking of land, wealth, and labor from… — James W. Loewen Copy Share Image
Venezuela has the biggest oil reserves in the world. And the biggest gas reserves in this hemisphere, the eighth in the world.… — Hugo Chavez Copy Share Image
I first learned that there were black people living in some place called other than the United States in the western hemisphere… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
