Institutionalised in sports, the military, acculturated sexuality, the history and mythology of heroism, violence is taught to boys until they becomes its… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
You know I am given to antiquarian and genealogical pursuits. An old family letter is a delight to my eyes. I can… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
“Most of us would benefit greatly from recognizing and accepting the difference between our history and our destiny.” — Steve Maraboli Copy Share Image
“A legacy is not what is recorded in history books or repeated in song, but what is woven into the souls of… — Adrian G. Hilder Copy Share Image
African history is filled with experiences of people shooting their way to power and then splintering into factions, like in Somalia and… — George Ayittey Copy Share Image
“Reading and knowledge feed the soul, but a man still needs bread… and here I am, caught between both. Yonan -” — Hany Elframawy Copy Share Image
No political party can possibly lead a great revolutionary movement to victory unless it possesses revolutionary theory and knowledge of history and… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
“Conner answered, "Mrs. Turbeldy warned me that you have a history of running away. Where did you go?" To the church of… — Jennifer A. Nielsen Copy Share Image
It is only with the rise of the Civil Rights Movement that you begin to see different examinations of not only Reconstruction… — Gerald Horne Copy Share Image
“When the first humans set foot on Mars, the moment will be more significant in terms of technology, philosophy, history, and exploration… — Stephen L. Petranek Copy Share Image
The flow of action continually produces consequences which are unintended by actors, and these unintended consequences also may form unacknowledged conditions of… — Anthony Giddens Copy Share Image
If you know the history of the whole concept of whiteness if you know the history of the whole concept of the… — Tim Wise Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I feel I don't want to know anything more about [history] than I know already. [...] Because what's the use of… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
There are a host of ethnic minorities in China, but they often have a weak sense of identity and are relatively small… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
The sex drive is one of the most fundamental human urges, and throughout history, there have been laws regulating what is considered… — Terry Gross Copy Share Image
I learned some classical music history, which I had done quite a bit at of Performing Arts. But I got some more… — Jon Gordon Copy Share Image
Children are dying." Lull nodded. "That's a succinct summary of humankind, I'd say. Who needs tomes and volumes of history? Children are… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
Just as science is more immediate and exciting than the history of science, so is insight more compelling than a history of… — Robert D. Richardson Copy Share Image
I plan on making my mark on the legacy of hip-hop, period, but also in Atlanta production because there's a lot of… — Metro Boomin Copy Share Image
Racial politics in Chicago has a long history of being intertwined with the mayor's race, but I'd like to think we're past… — Mike Quigley Copy Share Image
I like historical fiction. I fell in love with New Orleans the first time I visited it. And I wanted to place… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
We can only escape the bloody and ignorant nightmare of history by exploring alternatives which today look frighteningly weird. — Peter J. Carroll Copy Share Image
“To the country dug into our lives like a grave, to the country etherized, and killed, a sun rises from our paralyzed… — Ali Ahmad Said Asbar Adunis Copy Share Image
If you watch the history of baseball, teams come back, and sometimes they could have come back, but they give in or… — Tony La Russa Copy Share Image
Any role I play, which is native or highlights native history or culture, whether or not it's laid out, I'm always going… — Lily Gladstone Copy Share Image
How can knowing more be a bad thing? You can only look each other in the eye when you know the history… — Andi Oliver Copy Share Image
There were 17 people in the race. I got more votes than anybody in the history of Republican politics. By millions. — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
I'm basically an optimist because I do think there's this historical modernisation process, and by and large it's been very beneficial to… — Francis Fukuyama Copy Share Image
Millennials are on track to be the first generation in American history worse off than their parents, I know I speak for… — Jake Auchincloss Copy Share Image
History education in schools is so poor that students often enter college ignorant of the past - and leave just as unenlightened. — Max Boot Copy Share Image
On the court, Jason Collins is not a huge basketball star, but he has already claimed his place in civil rights history… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
Just as philosophy is the study of other people's misconceptions, so history is the study of other people's mistakes. — Phillip Guedala Copy Share Image
I am particularly horrified by the use of propaganda and the manipulation of the truth and the revision of history. — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Man is abandoned on earth in the midst of his infinite responsibilities, without help, with no aim but what he sets himself. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
This is a new phase in history where art, science, business and spirit will join together in the pursuit of true wealth. — James Altucher Copy Share Image
“War is sometimes described as long periods of boredom punctuated by short moments of excitement. History is often similar, if rather safer.” — John H. Arnold Copy Share Image
History teaches that when valuations are extreme, "mean reversion," a move towards historical norms, is likely. Once value stocks turn, the recovery… — Robert D. Arnott Copy Share Image
I would say that to put architecture in the chain of history, to be able to interpret and understand why we are… — Rafael Moneo Copy Share Image
“To escape Thucydides’s Trap, we must be willing to think the unthinkable—and imagine the unimaginable. Avoiding Thucydides’s Trap in this case will… — Graham Allison Copy Share Image
“we can not change history, we can not turn back time, but we can change ourselves,change for the better.” — Faiz Triumph Copy Share Image
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