I have no desire to write historical anything or futuristic anything - I want to find a way to get at the… — Jonathan Dee Copy Share Image
Do not separate text from historical background. If you do, you will have perverted and subverted the Constitution, which can only end… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Science fiction is like a blender - you can put in any historical experience and take influences from everything you see, read… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
She carried within herself a great fund of life, and her deepest enjoyment was to feel the continuity between the movement of… — Henry James Copy Share Image
Science is wonderful at destroying metaphysical answers, but incapable of providing substitute ones. Science takes away foundations without providing a replacement. Whether… — Hilary Putnam Copy Share Image
Bank-paper must be suppressed, and the circulating medium must be restored to the nation to whom it belongs. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
This very individualistic form of Protestant Christianity that became so basic in English and then American life is to a large degree… — Walter Russell Mead Copy Share Image
Historical memory is a potent weapon in fighting against the desert of organized forgetting and implies a rethinking of the role that… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Swedes, we are not - Russians, we do not want to become ... so let us be Finnish. — Adolf Ivar Arwidsson Copy Share Image
Just look at Poland, a sort of European perspective this has. So we have an interest in seeing this relationship be a… — Angela Merkel Copy Share Image
It's a historical phenomenon that in 250 years, a nation could move from a colony into the most prosperous nation of the… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
“If it’s only a kiss you want, I can kiss you with my clothes on.” —Katie O'Reilly to Captain Lord Blackthorn” — Jina Bacarr Copy Share Image
I think that the essential instruction of the Bible is very much topical. The sole problem is that with every change of… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
It is a matter of public shame that while we have now commemorated our hundredth anniversary, not one in every ten children… — Henry Lawson Copy Share Image
By the way, Howard Zinn's History of America is front and center at the gift shop of the New York Historical Society.… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
When I consider all the circumstances detailed above respecting the Pans, I cannot help believing that, under the mythos, a doctrine or… — Godfrey Higgins Copy Share Image
When a spectator approaches a painting with his own particular set of filters or theories, be they historical, political, intellectual or whatever… — Douglas Portway Copy Share Image
It is, I believe, no exaggeration to say that all the historical information which has been collected in the Sanskrit language is… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
The claim of the Zen followers that they are transmitting the essence of Buddhism is based on their belief that Zen takes… — D.T. Suzuki Copy Share Image
The ones that were relevant while I wrote my book were books like "Beloved" by Toni Morrison, which is based on a… — Laila Lalami Copy Share Image
Size will hurt returns. Look at Berkshire Hathaway - the last five things Warren has done have generated returns that are splendid… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
The dark shadow we seem to see in the distance is not really a mountain ahead, but the shadow of the mountain… — David Trimble Copy Share Image
We're not going to waste our valuable space or your precious energy by giving equal time to stories of tragedy, failure, and… — Rob Brezsny Copy Share Image
The general consensus among historians, among the ones who can handle the fact that 'Lincoln' is, in fact, historical fiction, is that… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
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