The search for historical laws is, I maintain, mistaken in principle. — George Gaylord Simpson Copy Share Image
tried to focus on a particular aspect of this historical moment: the failure of mourning. This is something I haven't seen a… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
I think creating the clothes is about creating historical images - and that's about more than fashion. It is about the fashion,… — Nicolas Ghesquiere Copy Share Image
It's like saying that two and two equals four, but if you wish to believe it, it could also be five ...… — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
I probably owe my political dismay to New Labour, but also my growing sense that the satirical shape of human affairs is… — Andrew O'Hagan Copy Share Image
The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Truth and History. 21 Men. The Boy Bandit King - He Died As He Lived. — Billy the Kid Copy Share Image
Complaints about the social irresponsibility of the intellectual typically concern the intellectual's tendency to marginalize herself, to move out from one community… — Richard Rorty Copy Share Image
The Aldrich Plan is the Wall Street Plan. It means another panic, if necessary, to intimidate the people. Aldrich, paid by the… — Charles August Lindbergh Copy Share Image
If our fathers, in 1776, had acknowledged the principle that a majority had the right to rule the minority, we should never… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
It's really the story of a young woman, or two women, growing up in Naples in a poor neighborhood. The way that… — Ann Goldstein Copy Share Image
The fourth landing of the Columbia is the historical equivalent of the driving of the golden spike which completed the first transcontinental… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
When I think about what really matters, it's not looking at art that has made the most difference or has been most… — W. S. Di Piero Copy Share Image
People can burn archives; people can destroy evidence, but to say that history is perishable, that historical evidence is perishable, is different… — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
The supremacy of public opinion determines not only the singular role that economics occupies in the complex of thought and knowledge. It… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
In these days the invention of printing, and the diffusion of knowledge, render historical calumnies a little less dangerous: truth will always… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Chance doesn't mean meaningless randomness, but historical contingency. This happens rather than that, and that's the way that novelty, new things, come… — John Polkinghorne Copy Share Image
Bourgeois class domination is undoubtedly an historical necessity, but, so too, the rising of the working class against it. Capital is an… — Rosa Luxemburg Copy Share Image
I'm pretty fortunate that I'm in the films I'm in largely because the directors have asked me to be in them. I'd… — Ricky Jay Copy Share Image
As for whether genre considerations influence what I write, they don't at all, but I might sell more books if they did.… — Elizabeth Crook Copy Share Image
The Sixties are now considered a historical period, just like the Roman Empire. — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
Without doubt, President [Barack] Obama is a great historical figure. — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
Truly, this vice is never to be compared with any other vice because it surpasses the enormity of all vices.... It defiles… — Peter Damian Copy Share Image
My collection of historical fashion consists of about 10,000 pieces - dresses and accessories, from 18th century to today. The main focus… — Alexander Vassiliev Copy Share Image
With a rumble and a roar, an iron curtain is descending on Russian history. — Vasily Rozanov Copy Share Image
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