The idea of taking what people call the 'entertainment culture' as a focus of study, including historical perspective, is not a bad… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
It seems the height of antiquated hubris to claim that the universe carried on as it did for billions of years in… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Whether I like it or not, most of my images of what various historical periods feel, smell, or sound like were acquired… — Lauren Willig Copy Share Image
I have resolved never to start an unjust war, but never to end a legitimate one except by defeating my enemies. — Charles XII of Sweden Copy Share Image
A generation which ignores history has no past — and no future. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
If all the animals and man had been evolved in this ascendant manner, then there had been no first parents, no Eden,… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
A people armed and free, forms a barrier against the enterprises of ambition and is a bulwark for the nation against foreign… — James Madison Copy Share Image
“He shook his head, staring at her like a condemned man who beheld the face of his executioner. "Aline," he whispered, "Do… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
As for the historical inspirations I drew on in writing The Snow Queen, I suppose I would call them more cross-cultural inspirations,… — Joan D. Vinge Copy Share Image
Thomas Pynchon surely inaugurated or crystallized a new genre in 1963 when he published 'V.' The seriocomic mystery or thriller with one… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
Moreover, they [the Central Asian Republics] are of importance from the standpoint of security and historical ambitions to at least three of… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
Geological facts being of an historical nature, all attempts to deduce a complete knowledge of them merely from their still, subsisting consequences,… — Richard Kirwan Copy Share Image
It is a historical error for those who were not there to just refer to August 28th as 'I Have a Dream'… — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
Italy is full of historical buildings. And Europe holds a great history of philosophy from Greece until today. I read all those… — Tadao Ando Copy Share Image
Boris Yeltsin's period was characterized by a no less irresponsible attitude to people's lives, but in other ways. In his haste to… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
No one has ever succeeded in keeping nations at war except by lies. — Salvador de Madariaga Copy Share Image
I've been told by people who write historical novels that you just sort of write the emotional truth first, the story at… — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
I don't separate my books into historical novels and the rest. To me, they're all made-up worlds, and both kinds are borne… — Peter Carey Copy Share Image
To avoid entangling alliances has been a maxim of our policy ever since the days of Washington, and its wisdom no one… — James Buchanan Copy Share Image
The focus of all life is its economy, the mode through which every living creature produces its material existence. I know no… — Moses Hess Copy Share Image
“Inrealized how valuable the art and practice of writing letters are, and how important it is to remind people of what a… — Nancy Reagan Copy Share Image
What can realistically be done depends on the historical moment. The same is true with regard to the agents. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
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