We have a lot of historical and religious baggage in our culture. It's ancient; we are clannish as a species. We like… — Sherri Saum Copy Share Image
I've never known, at least a modern historical instance, where the truth wasn't superior to distortion in every way. — Shelby Foote Copy Share Image
And finally, it was Deuteronomy that brought about the historical result of Josiah's reformation. — Julius Wellhausen Copy Share Image
If anyone ever said biopic I would say, "It's not a biopic." We're fighting uphill against the weight of history. I was… — Don Cheadle Copy Share Image
Are there still other possibilities? Of course there are. What is important to recognize is that all three historical options are really… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
“I am going to be Queen of England,' I protest. 'You make it sound like a battle to the death.' 'It is… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
I think it's important to understand that in the big historical context of things, there has been land degradation from civilisation since… — Joel Salatin Copy Share Image
I think it is fair to say that during World War II there was a high sense of purpose. The country had… — Friedrich St. Florian Copy Share Image
. . . What role does historiography play in the way a society and culture "remembers" past events? Does the historian have… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The occurrence of successive forms of life upon our globe is an historical fact, which cannot be disputed; and the relation of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I am not someone who believes I am going to find a historical scoop. — Antony Beevor Copy Share Image
The face of the angel of history is turned toward the past. Where we perceived a chain of events, he sees a… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
Mr. Speaker, the fact of the matter is that the Ten Commandments are a historical document that contains moral, ethical, and legal… — Cliff Stearns Copy Share Image
Just because a company falls doesn't invalidate what we can learn by studying that company when it was at its historical best. — James C. Collins Copy Share Image
“If we are going to revisit the past, let us go there only to learn from our past mistakes, and not to… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
The idea that the Crusades and the fight of Christendom against Islam is somehow an aggression on our part is absolutely anti-historical, — Rick Santorum Copy Share Image
As founder and co-chair of the upper Mississippi River Congressional task force, I have long sought to preserve the river's health and… — Ron Kind Copy Share Image
Historical Re-creation, he thought glumly, as they picked their way across, under, over or through the boulders and insect-buzzing heaps of splintered… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I think the importance of doing activist work is precisely because it allows you to give back and to consider yourself not… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
But we have a war of ideals and ideas, and that is to sell democracy... — John McCain Copy Share Image
After working as a journalist I went to a writing program at Johns Hopkins. It was interesting because it was neither journalistic… — Iris Chang Copy Share Image
The historical resonances are sharp. [Louis] Brandeis is nominated on Jan. 28, 1916. Confirmed on June 1. Waits 125 days between nomination… — Jeffrey Rosen Copy Share Image
I enjoy thinking myself into other times and places. I don't like some of the conventions of the 'historical novel', but I… — Hari Kunzru Copy Share Image
Our allegiance is to the principles always, and not to the persons. Persons are but the embodiments, the illustrations of the principles.… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
At the Museum of Roman Art, the logic of the forms is very much modern. But in spite of that, the idea… — Rafael Moneo Copy Share Image
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