When I was seven years old, I fell in love with a series published by Bobbs-Merrill called 'The Childhood of Famous Americans.'… — Ann Hood Copy Share Image
The roots of great innovation are never just in the technology itself. They are always in the wider historical context. They require… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
Some writers may toy with the fancy of a ‘Christ-myth,’ but they do not do so on the ground of historical evidence.… — F. F. Bruce Copy Share Image
We will be returning to historical levels of inequality. We'll view post-war America as a kind of strange interlude not to be… — Tyler Cowen Copy Share Image
Baseball may be our national pastime, but the age-old tradition of taking a swing at Congress is a sport with even deeper… — Evan Bayh Copy Share Image
Herschel Grynszpan's life was enigmatic, elusive and tragic. The traces he left on the historical record are just sufficient to tantalize and… — Janette Turner Hospital Copy Share Image
Christendom is not primarily a mental construct. It is above all a fact, indeed the longest historical experience the Church has had.… — Gustavo Gutiérrez Copy Share Image
If we don't have historical consciousness we can't really understand problems in all their dimensions, and if we can't understand problems than… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
“Calmly, slowly, she reached behind with her left hand and came up against — yes, fabric. Fine linen, to be precise. So… — Y.S. Lee 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
At least I've had to come to that in my life, to realize that this stuff called failure, this stuff, this debris… — Joy Harjo Copy Share Image
Humanism is an overemphasis on human worth and ability, leading man to glorify himself instead of God...While its historical forms may vary,… — David Fisher Copy Share Image
For a long time I felt that FDR had developed many thoughts and ideas that were his own to benefit this country,… — Curtis Bean Dall Copy Share Image
Each day of your life, as soon as you open your eyes in the morning, you can square away for a happy… — George Matthew Adams Copy Share Image
Our dreams of bringing the whole of human history under the control of the human will are ironically refuted by the fact… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
I cannot too often repeat that Democracy is a word the real gist of which still sleeps, quite unawakened, notwithstanding the resonance… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
There are reveries so deep, reveries which help us descend so deeply within ourselves that they rid us of our history. They… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
Paradoxically, preserving liberty may require the rule of a single leader-a dictator-willing to use those dreaded 'extraordinary measures, which few know how,… — Michael A. Ledeen Copy Share Image
Personally, speaking as a historian and a storyteller, when it comes to inaccuracy in historical fictioneering, I follow the Shakespeare principle: I'm… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
The random quantum fluctuations of my brain are historical accidents that happen to have decided that the concepts of dynamic scoping and… — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
I've been impressed, over the last 15 years, with how often the somewhat conspiratorial comments of Haitian villagers have been proven to… — Paul Farmer Copy Share Image
Historical costumes from the 18th and 19th centuries look so complicated, but when you see the patterns, it's very systematic. I've always… — Olivier Theyskens Copy Share Image
Why do I write historical fiction? Johnny Tremain, The Witch of Blackbird Pond, Island of the Blue Dolphins-that's why. I'll never forget… — Jennifer Armstrong Copy Share Image
In the long march of history, at least two poles of attraction and antagonism have been the norm in world politics. Rarely… — Eskinder Nega Copy Share Image
Be careful how you choose your enemy, for you will come to resemble him. The moment you adapt your enemy's methods your… — Michael Ventura Copy Share Image
It is this conception of the unity of the human career which is perhaps the greatest achievement of historical study, since it… — James Henry Breasted Copy Share Image
When you read a history or biography you are entitled to imagine that it is as accurate as the authors can make… — Nicholas Meyer Copy Share Image
Testimony should be a philosophical problem and not limited to legal or historical contexts where it refers to the account of a… — Paul Ricoeur Copy Share Image
In the American Jewish community, there is little willingness to face the fact that the Palestinian Arabs have suffered a monstrous historical… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If you make a determination that [story of Abraham and the sacrifice of Isaac] is not historical, do you throw it away?… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
You always try to do your own thing. One of the things I wanted to do was to write a book that… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
But, you know, there's another group that really runs the show. It's very shadowy, just as you've described... Those of us in… — Virgil Goode Copy Share Image
What can convince modern man is not a historical or a psychological or a continually ever modernizing Christianity but only the unrestricted… — Romano Guardini Copy Share Image
You can never really understand an individual unless you also understand the society,historical time period in which they live,personal troubles, and social… — C. Wright Mills Copy Share Image
Bombing is not especially inhumane. War itself is inhumane and the bombing plane, which is used to paralyse industry and transport, is… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Though [Charles Guignebert] could not accept either the Christ myth theory, which held that no historical Jesus existed, or the Dutch Radical… — Robert M. Price 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
The Japanese couldn't have been all bad during World War II. Look at all the movies Hollywood was able to make on… — Pat Morita Copy Share Image
Seduction is an absolute pleasure to read -- clever, suspenseful, exciting, mysterious, learned, and engrossing. Some of the best historical fiction I've… — David Liss Copy Share Image
Sooner I'd try to change history than turn political, than try convincing others to write letters or to vote or to march… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
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