They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. This sentence was much… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
It's very much to do with how I'm feeling ... I love to be experimental and use eclectic mismatched things and put… — Bat for Lashes Copy Share Image
These pictures possibly give rise to questions of political content or historical truth. Neither interests me in this instance. And although even… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on the recovery of my freedom, and, perhaps, the establishment of my fame.… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
And that's the one thing that people do not understand is that we have very low interest rates and if those go… — Ben Quayle 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
I can go to parties all the time and not see people I want to work with, but then sometimes I do,… — Will Cotton Copy Share Image
Polar fleece is a plush, spongy, totally artificial material that weighs nothing and conveys no quality of warmth or coolness; in fact,… — Mary Ruefle Copy Share Image
No one writes better historical fiction than Steven Pressfield. The Afghan War that was waged by Alexander the Great 2000 years ago… — Vince Flynn Copy Share Image
We are now standing in the face of the greatest historical confrontation humanity has gone through. I do not think that wide… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
A rare book at once of great importance and wonderful to read… Gould presents a fascinating historical study of scientific racism, tracing… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
I've also been documenting an unsustainable way of life. And you see in peoples' stories that this world of consumerism does not… — Lauren Greenfield Copy Share Image
I've always been interested in history, but they never taught Negro history in the public schools...I don't see how a history of… — Jacob Lawrence Copy Share Image
This trial cannot be separated from the process of the historical struggle in Palestine that continues today between the Zionist Movement and… — Ahmad Sa'adat Copy Share Image
“Biographical history, as taught in our public schools, is still largely a history of boneheads: ridiculous kings and queens, paranoid political leaders,… — Martin Gardner Copy Share Image
The Bible is not considered an accurate, absolute, authoritative, or authoritarian source but a book to be experienced and one experience can… — Brian D. McLaren Copy Share Image
“You'll find that historical research is extremely soothing. When you spend all day among old papers, the people come alive for you,… — Ruth Reichl Copy Share Image
The Second Amendment's language and historical and philosophical background demonstrated that it was designed to guarantee individuals the possession of certain kinds… — Don Kates Copy Share Image
I can honestly say that there are many forms of atheism that I find far more admirable than many forms of Christianity… — David Bentley Hart 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
My concern today is with the painting of manners of the present. The past is interesting not only by reason of the… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Like sex, poverty and power, suicide may always be with us. But like them again, the actual form is takes is essentially… — David Cannadine Copy Share Image
All our moves are based on four general principles: continued use of the rifle, no waiving of historical rights, no peace, and… — Yasser Arafat Copy Share Image
Religion means goal and way, politics implies end and means. The political end is recognizable by the fact that it may be… — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
“Stars flicker above, points of bright ice in a dark river. I pull a heavy sheepskin around my legs and stretch my… — Ned Hayes Copy Share Image
Historical chronology, human or geological, depends... upon comparable impersonal principles. If one scribes with a stylus on a plate of wet clay… — M. King Hubbert Copy Share Image
If the Holocaust didn't take place, why then did this regime of occupation come about? Why do the European countries commit themselves… — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Copy Share Image
Nothing is more detestable to the physical anthropologist than... the wretched habit of cremating the dead. It involves not only a prodigal… — Earnest Hooton Copy Share Image
I love the ideas of looking back to historical heroes to give us inspiration on how we can be today's heroes to… — Kirk Cameron Copy Share Image
“Her Majesty to the theatre. The performance took place on a stage erected in the courtyard, and Her Majesty closed in one… — Princess Der Ling Copy Share Image
“You next," he said. "Out of those clothes and into bed." She nodded but didn't move from Sally's side. The thought of… — Deeanne Gist Copy Share Image
I think we're in a very distinctively different historical moment. I mean, I think that you had two things that were operating… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
What writers of fantasy, science fiction, and much historical fiction do for a living is different from what writers of so-called literary… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
As for whether genre considerations influence what I write, they don't at all, but I might sell more books if they did.… — Elizabeth Crook Copy Share Image
Sociologists and historians have avoided looking for the family sources of wars and social violence. Whenever a group produces murderers, the early… — Lloyd deMause 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
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
Falling into Donald Trump's trap, or being distracted every time he sends out a tweet is really not leadership. And, I would… — Sam Rasoul Copy Share Image
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Is the warming unprecedented? Probably not. There is abundant historical and proxy evidence for both hotter and cooler periods in human history.… — Don Aitkin Copy Share Image
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