“The American flag doesn't give her glory on a peaceful, calm day. It's when the winds pick up and become boisterous, do… — Anthony Liccione Copy Share Image
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“How many times did the sun shine, how many times did the wind howl over the desolate tundras, over the bleak immensity… — Emile Argand Copy Share Image
“The real reason that students and increasingly teachers of art history are ready to jettison the past, however, is that the refusal… — Christopher S. Wood Copy Share Image
“What you don’t know going in is that when you come out, you will be scarred for life. Whether you were in… — William Guarnere Copy Share Image
“Still, if history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth. The… — Edward O. Wilson Copy Share Image
“I was perplexed by the failure of teachers at school to address what seemed the most urgent matter of all: the bewildering,… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
“...We always look for Christ amid magnificence. But ... Christ has a history of showing up amide the unlovely. Born in a… — Philip Gulley Copy Share Image
“What struck me as I began to study history was how nationalist fervor--inculcated from childhood on by pledges of allegiance, national anthems,… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“One other important footnote to history: On Sunday, March 16, the same day that JP Morgan Chase announced its purchase of Bear… — Alan S. Blinder Copy Share Image
“Stick out your arms," he'd say, "straight out at your sides," and when he had you in the appropriate cruciform position he'd… — Robert Charles Wilson Copy Share Image
“The principle of analogy is so simple, so natural, that everyone uses it in daily life. Imagine someone sitting down in front… — Robert M. Price Copy Share Image
“The stories don't fit back together, and it's the end of stories, those devices we carry like shells and shields and blinkers… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
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“The claim to a national culture in the past does not only rehabilitate that nation and serve as a justification for the… — Frantz Fanon Copy Share Image
“A biologist with a history of tooth decay invents a symbiotic microbe which lives in the human mouth and feeds by cleaning… — James Curcio Copy Share Image
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“Stanley must have realized that this postponement would probably be fatal. But while he did not give up, he never for a… — Tim Jeal Copy Share Image
“Altogether forty-five Emperors had claimed the Spear of Destiny as their possession between the coronation in Rome of Charlemagne and the fall… — Trevor Ravenscroft Copy Share Image
“The crisis of history in France, is a crisis of social bond, a crisis of citizenship. A citizen is the heir of… — Jean Sevillia Copy Share Image
“This attack is the greatest tragedy in human history,” Avasarala said. “They want the belt to rise up so they can hide… — James S.A. Corey Copy Share Image
“History of Medicine: The Biology and Genetics of Obesity — A Century of Inquiries Chin Jou, Ph.D. | 1515 words Volume 370:1874-1877… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Indeed, the prevalence of abortion among Protestant women (versus mostly immigrant Catholics) is widely considered by historians to be one of the… — Jonathan Dudley Copy Share Image
“Facta! Yes, Facta ficta! - A historian has to do, not with what actually happened, but only with events supposed to have… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“We live in a moment in which old conflicts, much altered during their subterraneous years, have boiled up again. The struggle to… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“Canadian researcher Donald Dutton . . has written that marital work with a man who has a history of relationship violence may… — Susan Weitzman Copy Share Image
“The Historian and the Man of Science alike may be said to traffic with the dead. Cuvier has imparted flesh and motion… — A.S. Byatt Copy Share Image
“The midwest is full of these types of people. The nice enoughs but with a soul made of plastic. Easy to mold,… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“Tolstoy was perfectly right to protest that history is not made to happen by the combination of such obscure entities as the… — Isaiah Berlin Copy Share Image
“As historian Lerone Bennett Jr. eloquently reminds us, 'A nation is a choice.' We could choose to be a nation that extends… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“He, unfortunately for himself, had been beautifully brought up. His teacher had educated him as the child is educated in the womb,… — T.H. White Copy Share Image
“From Adam to the present, the whole history of the world has been one recurring instance of personal and group apostasy after… — Bruce R. McConkie Copy Share Image
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“I went outside. Tried taking in the billions of stars above, lingering long enough to allow each point of light the chance… — Mark Z. Danielewski Copy Share Image
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“The crucial importance of human expectations has far-reaching implications for understanding the history of happiness. If happiness depended only on objective conditions… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
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