As the 20th century ended, there were around 120 democracies in the world - and I can assure you more are on… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Coconut oil has been described as the “World's Healthiest Dietary Oil”. There is a mountain of historical evidence and medical research to… — Bruce Fife Copy Share Image
Pictures can and do make a difference. Strong images of historical events do have an impact on society. They can help with… — Charles Moore Copy Share Image
The threat of environmental crisis is the 'international disaster key' to unlock the New World Order. — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
I can't read historical fiction because I find the real thing so much more interesting. — Antonia Fraser Copy Share Image
History must repeat itself because we pay such little attention to it the first time. — Blackie Sherrod Copy Share Image
As an historical novelist - there are few jobs more retrospective. I dumped science at an early age. — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
Great abilities are not requisite for an Historian; for in historical composition, all the greatest powers of the human mind are quiescent. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
If a lie is only printed often enough, it becomes a quasi-truth, and if such a truth is repeated often enough, it… — Isa Blagden Copy Share Image
It is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biological sense. It is images of the past… Each… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
Great leaders understand that historical success tends to produce stable and inwardly focused organizations, and these outfits, in turn, reinforce a feeling… — John P. Kotter Copy Share Image
“What does freedom mean if we accept the fundamental premise that humans are social beings, raised in certain social and historical contexts… — Lila Abu-Lughod Copy Share Image
“Wicked eyes are not a good prospect for seminary boys. They want a gentle, soft sort of wife, not a wife who… — Gwenn Wright Copy Share Image
And all times are one time, and all those dead in the past never lived before our definition gives them life, and… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
In sum: banking theory and practice, as immobilizing and fixating forces, fail to acknowledge men and women as historical beings; problem-posing theory… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
The historical sense compels a man to write not merely with his own generation in his bones, but with a feeling that… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
For we cannot adequately understand 'man' as an isolated biological creature, as a bundle of reflexes or a set of instincts, as… — C. Wright Mills Copy Share Image
Nationality is not a universal human principle but an historical, local fact...Every nation, even a small one, has its own character, its… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
The thing that most haunted me that day, however...was the fact that these things had - apparently - actually occurred...For all his… — Elizabeth Kostova 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
In a public dialogue with Salman in London he [Edward Said] had once described the Palestinian plight as one where his people,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Regarding Ronald Reagan: In point of fact, the image of Ronald Reagan, the man responsible for shaping that decade (the 1980s), should… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Darwin, Marx, and Freud meet. They may have understood other things, but the human soul, and in particular the soul of Culture-man,… — Francis Parker Yockey Copy Share Image
Young people today are flooded with disconnected images but lack a sympathetic instrument to analyze them as well as a historical frame… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
For me, writing historical fiction is all about finding a balance between reading, traveling, looking, imagining, and dreaming. — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
I really hate the term 'historical novel' - it reminds me of bodice-rippers. But I'm hooked on research, and I really, really… — Hannah Kent Copy Share Image
For both art and the historical sciences are ways of experiencing in which our own understanding of existence is immediately brought into… — Hans-Georg Gadamer Copy Share Image
“Ho! Wise men say, 'He who hath not a good and ready memory should never meddle in telling lies.'" Drew smiled. "I… — Deeanne Gist Copy Share Image
Intellectual neutrality is not possible in a historical world of exploitation and oppression. — Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza Copy Share Image
As a historical legacy, the Kashmir conflict has been an outstanding issue for more than half a century. — Li Peng Copy Share Image
“I'll betide thee, say I, and may the Gods, or at least the Athenians, confound thee for a vile citizen and a… — Demosthenes Copy Share Image
Historical truth is that, and that alone, which reveals the forces that go to mould the social life of mankind. — Ahad Ha'am Copy Share Image
“Why, on to the castle, to kill the royal family, and claim the throne that isn't mine by right!” — Richard Curtis Copy Share Image
Except if it has some historical meaning for them to have Tibet under their control. I don't understand why [ Chinese] want… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Cultural anthropology is more and more rapidly getting to realize itself as a strictly historical science. — Edward Sapir Copy Share Image
Stop throwing the Constitution in my face. It's just a goddamned piece of paper! — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
There is an angel within the monkey struggling to get free, and this is what the historical crisis is all about. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
“Violate me?” He laughed, a black lock of hair falling in front of one eye. “That sounds delightful.” — Juliette Cross Copy Share Image
Large-scale philanthropy, based in the private - not the public - sector, is a relatively recent historical development. — Peter Diamandis Copy Share Image
Demanding historical (or scientific) veracity as a prerequisite for truth is another kind of tunnel vision. To do so is to mistake… — Charles Kimball Copy Share Image
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