“This is the story of Isaac and his time in America, the last turning of the centuries, when the hubris of men… — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
“Throughout history the most powerful rulers have been sex maniacs. And he asks, does their sex appetite come from having power, or… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I like to say that at some point, you'll say in the history of wrestling there's nobody better than The Undisputed ERA.… — Roderick Strong Copy Share Image
“A store-bought trinket with no history, no story. I knew, deep down, when he gave it to me that he didn't understand… — Christina Baker Kline Copy Share Image
“Metanarratives give meaning to individual events, tying them together in the broadest possible fashion. They help structure all of life around a… — Heath White Copy Share Image
In these days the invention of printing, and the diffusion of knowledge, render historical calumnies a little less dangerous: truth will always… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
The history of science is everywhere speculative. It is a marvelous hiatory. It makes you proud to be a human being. — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
History. Language. Passion. Custom. All these things determine what men say, think, and do. These are the hidden puppet-strings from which all… — R. Scott Bakker Copy Share Image
“There is inevitably a chicken-and-the-egg character to any debate as to whether economic growth produces its appropriate mental character or is produced… — Keith Thomas Copy Share Image
Barack Obama today is directing every federal agency to make sure we evaluate candidates on the level without regard to their employment… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Having a wife and kids drove home the brutal reality of the slave system for me - the price it exacted on… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
“Certainly human culture may have achieved great progress in the course of history. Suffering and unhappiness in the human world, however, do… — Zenkei Shibayama Copy Share Image
It is the Muslim's conception of himself as the khulifa of Allah on the earth that makes him the vortex of human… — Ismail al-Faruqi Copy Share Image
“One of the greatest problems of history is that the concepts of love and power are usually contrasted as polar opposites. Love… — Martin Luther King Jr Copy Share Image
“As Jewish historian Yuri Slezkine noted, modernity has turned us all into Jews. ("The Jewish Century," 2004.) Modernism is the dysfunction that… — Henry Makow Copy Share Image
Beyond America's historical role as pioneers of human exploration, it is critical to understand space as a national security imperative. Just as… — Michael Waltz Copy Share Image
My friends, this body - perhaps more than any other gathering in human history - now faces that difficult task. — Leonardo DiCaprio Copy Share Image
I urge you to pursue preserving your personal history to allow your children and grandchildren to know who you were as a… — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
I always say that countries that keep women in the backseat will always end up on the wrong side of history. — Manal al-Sharif Copy Share Image
Life happens once for us, so let's use it beautifully, and make all it's beauties and hardship, a history. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people convinced they are about to change the world. I am more… — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
A Poet, Naturalist, and Historian, Who left scarcely any style of writing untouched, And touched nothing that he did not adorn. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The history of life is a tale of decimation and later stabilization of few surviving anatomies, not a story of steady expansion… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
The new update of 2014-2015 is, of course, the attack of ISIS. But this is rooted in recent history. It is the… — Yanar Mohammed Copy Share Image
“History needs to be mightily inventive about human life because bare life is an accusation against man's dominion of the earth.” — Sebastian Barry Copy Share Image
Because the American people champion liberty, more people in the world live free today than at any time in history. Yet, there… — Dick Armey Copy Share Image
I try hard to convince them it's important - but there's a history of discomfort with minorities voting in some parts of… — Eddie Bernice Johnson Copy Share Image
To live without history is to live like an infant, constantly amazed and challenged by a strange and unnamed world. — Joan Nestle Copy Share Image
“What could be duller than past history!' Therese said, smiling. 'Maybe futures that won't have any history.” — Patricia Highsmith Copy Share Image
To be a manager, you have to perform always. You cannot live in history. It's now and tomorrow that counts. — Sven-Goran Eriksson Copy Share Image
“The historic beauty of BJJ rests not with its ability to allow a smaller man to maim a larger man, but with… — Cameron Conaway Copy Share Image
“A new doctor had been sent for, Lazzaro of Pavia, who had administered to Lorenzo a pulverized mixture of diamonds and pearls.… — Irving Stone Copy Share Image
“Let us reject this decree. In matters of conscience the majority has no power."--Merle d'Aubigne, History of the Reformation, b. 13, ch. 5.” — Ellen White Copy Share Image
History shows that, more often than not, loss of sovereignty leads to liberalisation imposed in the interests of the powerful. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“The past is our always-available counterculture, and it's a rich one. Every minute you spend attending to something not-immediately-present, you are helping… — Alan Jacobs Copy Share Image
Caesar had his Brutus, Charles the First his Cromwell; and George the Third — ['Treason!' cried the Speaker] — may profit by… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
We've talked and written about the World War so much that it has almost been purged off. The bitterness is gone. The… — Gulzar Copy Share Image
For the average person, all problems date to World War II; for the more informed, to World War I; for the genuine… — Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn Copy Share Image
“You are the culmination of all that ever was. You are the highest point of the vast pyramid of history and of… — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
I mean, every novel's a historical novel anyway. But calling something a historical novel seems to put mittens on it, right? It… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
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