A collection of masks, depicting historical figures in life and what I like to call the eternal repose. — Wes Craven Copy Share Image
Homeopathy may be defined as a specious mode of doing nothing. While it waits on the natural progress of disease and the… — Jacob Bigelow Copy Share Image
If anything, Brown is more oriented towards the other side of the Atlantic than Blair. Most of his reforming ideas and intellectual… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. This sentence was much… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The highest historical probability can be adduced in support of the proposition that, if it were possible to annihilate the Bible, and… — Edward Everett Copy Share Image
Gardeners instinctively know that flowers and plants are a continuum and that the wheel of garden history will always be coming full… — Francis Cabot Copy Share Image
[My wife] liked to collect old encyclopedias from second-hand bookstores, and at one point we had eight of them. When I wrote… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
“Haw! Haw! Inconceivable stupidity is just what you're going to get! (Brigadier-General Henry Wilson, on being challenged in 1910 about the likelihood… — Max Hastings Copy Share Image
Anxieties about ourselves endure. If our proper study is indeed the study of humankind, then it has seemed-and still seems-to many that… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
On what does the Christian argument for Immortality really rest? It stands upon the pedestal on which the theologian rests the whole… — William Henry Drummond Copy Share Image
“The greatest challenge of my life has been to see and accept the actual truth without great pain and struggle against it.” — M.C. Halliday Copy Share Image
There's the historical part of The Beach Boys' music; it's pretty incredible, pretty vast and pretty varied too. — Mike Love Copy Share Image
We are now standing in the face of the greatest historical confrontation humanity has gone through. I do not think that wide… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
The Marshall Plan will go down in history as one of America's greatest contributions to the peace of the world. — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
I've always really loved big worlds and the kind of worldbuilding where you can open a portal into a new realm that… — Victoria Aveyard Copy Share Image
Hitler's historical hero had always been Frederick the Great. [Later], under Goebbels' prompting ... Napoleon emerged ... as his model. .... Frederick… — Ernst Hanfstaengl Copy Share Image
For many women, the experience of prostitution stems from the historical trauma of colonization. — Melissa Farley Copy Share Image
“I wanted to learn more about its past but felt this overwhelming need to leave. I remember hearing somewhere that buildings can… — Hadinet Tekie Copy Share Image
Jesus is an historical figure for me, and he's also a bridge between God and man, in the Christian faith, and one… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
We find collected in this book [The Bible] the superstitious beliefs of the ancient inhabitants of Palestine, with indistinct echoes of Indian… — Max Nordau Copy Share Image
Every age that has historical status is governed by aristocracies. — Joseph Goebbels Copy Share Image
Post World War II America draws a great deal of interest, but the students also seem to know quite a bit about… — Mohammad Marandi Copy Share Image
There are, besides, eternal truths, such as Freedom, , etc., that are common to all states of society. But Communism abolishes eternal… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Many novelists take well-defined, precise characters, whose stories are sometimes of mediocre interest, and place them in an important historical context, which… — Raymond Queneau Copy Share Image
What writers of fantasy, science fiction, and much historical fiction do for a living is different from what writers of so-called literary… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
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