The whole point of society is to be less unforgiving than nature. — Arthur D. Hlavaty Copy Share Image
Those who did not live during the years close to 1789 do not know the pleasure of living. — Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Copy Share Image
History is various and sinuous and no essential part of the human spirit is ever wholly absent from it. — Benedetto Croce Copy Share Image
I was the first person in NYU Medical Center's history to be diagnosed with NMDAR encephalitis. — Susannah Cahalan Copy Share Image
“I like to live in the past. I don't think people are going to get much fun in the future.” — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Presence is like a gap in the flow of history, where all of [a] sudden it is not past and not future. — Peter Zumthor Copy Share Image
If you want to learn about the history of a people, eat their food and drink their beverages. — Clemantine Wamariya Copy Share Image
History is so indifferently rich, that a case for almost any conclusion from it can be made by a selection of instances. — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“The truths embodied in historical stories are thus not absolute or universal, but relative to the cultural context in which they are… — Richard Handler Copy Share Image
Musicians do music for the girls. We do music for the money. We do music for the recognition, for the rock and… — Sixto Rodriguez Copy Share Image
Perhaps September 11 could be called the first historic world event in the strictest sense: the impact, the explosion, the slow collapse… — Jurgen Habermas Copy Share Image
Other places are also generators of far-flung violence beyond their own borders - Pakistan and Saudi Arabia are obvious examples - but… — Stephen Kinzer Copy Share Image
Peter Jones's is a vital public service. He reminds us that while we shouldn't live in the past, we are wiser and… — Bettany Hughes Copy Share Image
somewhere about the eighteenth century, history tacitly replaced religion as the school of public morals. — C. V. Wedgwood Copy Share Image
Today's headlines and history's judgment are rarely the same. If you are too attentive to the former, you will most certainly not… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Yet the arts of Severus cannot be justified by the most ample privileges of state reason. He promised only to betray; he… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
My interest in writing about American history stemmed originally, I think, from a subconscious desire to find roots - I felt like… — Jean Fritz Copy Share Image
“Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and torturous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness with which more than half… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“recent events compel us to raise anew. From the beginning, the most serious and systematic attempts to write Universal Histories saw the… — Francis Fukuyama Copy Share Image
“It's always been pride. The History of the Mayfair Witches was pride. But this came to me wrapped in the mysteries of… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“Hatshepsut has been called the first great woman of history. She simply appointed herself King of Egypt and that was all there… — Will Cuppy Copy Share Image
The concentration of wealth is a natural result of this concentration of ability, and regularly recurs in history. The rate of concentration… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
I don't know if it's fair to say that it's a bad time for movies. It seems to me that throughout the… — William H. Macy Copy Share Image
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