One of the most important factors in life, politics and war, to which historians tend to devote too little attention, is sheer… — Robert Rhodes James Copy Share Image
I arrived from Harvard, where I had studied philosophy and the history of ideas, with a bias toward literature and formal thought. — Robert Darnton Copy Share Image
If conquerors be regarded as the engine-drivers of History, then the conquerors of thought are perhaps the pointsmen who, less conspicuous to… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
This history of a secular state doesn't exist, no. The state is Christian, and those who are against it can leave. — Jair Bolsonaro Copy Share Image
Yes, the small village that we live in, in Virginia, is a very interesting place, in terms of its Civil War history,… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
Look how Bill Cohen and George Mitchell worked together. It's the stuff of legends. And now it's the stuff of almost ancient… — Barbara Mikulski Copy Share Image
Although no one can go back and make an brand new start anyone can start a new begining and make sure you… — A New Start Copy Share Image
The question of changing the name must not be taboo. The Front National is a name that has a strong history. It… — Marine Le Pen Copy Share Image
Adam Clayton Powell's entire political career has to be looked at in the entire context of the American history and the history… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
In some far-off distant time, when the twentieth century history of primitive computing is just a murky memory, someone is likely to… — Charles Petzold Copy Share Image
“The earth will always be the same - only cities and history will change, even nations will change, governments and governors will… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
I think that technology is always invented for historical reasons, to solve a historical problem. But they very soon reveal themselves to… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
“There is a point in the history of society when it becomes so pathologically soft and tender that among other things it… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We can learn from history how past generations thought and acted, how they responded to the demands of their time and how… — Gerda Lerner Copy Share Image
“In the first summer of the Iraqi war, on the crabby, sweaty second day of a blackout that shut down the northeast’s… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
No one ever sits you down at age eight and says, 'Aminatta, this is what's happened so far.' You have to work… — Aminatta Forna Copy Share Image
I think the book business is really sitting on the greatest moment in the history of time. We are providing the stories… — Adriana Trigiani Copy Share Image
When I first came in the league, a lot of people were surprised by my knowledge about the history of the game. — Tony Parker Copy Share Image
'The Last Kingdom''s got its roots in history, and it's a lot grittier. It doesn't have the 'Game of Thrones' gloss. — Alexander Dreymon Copy Share Image
A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - a place… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
“Far from being marginalized, as is presently the case, nineteenth-century freethought was a social movement at the core of our national life.” — Fred Whitehead Copy Share Image
Throughout its history, the international Olympic Committee has struggled to spread its ideal of fraternity, friendship, peace and universal understanding. — Juan Antonio Samaranch Copy Share Image
“The history of science is the back-and-forth movement of trial-and-error advances and retreats, punctuated by moments of brilliance and marred by periods… — Robert A. Burton Copy Share Image
“The day we forget the horror, Sam, we will repeat it. Never forget your past. It will make you less human, less… — Katherine Reay Copy Share Image
In economic panics throughout history, the wiping out of the savings accounts of lower earners and the middle class has often led… — Nick Clooney Copy Share Image
The aim of every authentic artist is not to conform to the history of art, but to release himself from it in… — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Incredibly, at this critical juncture in financial history, after which so much changed so quickly, the only constraint in the subprime mortgage… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
Every era of renaissance has come out of new freedoms for peoples. The coming renaissance will be greater than any in human… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
If you look at our history, this is a club that has always represented the values of citizenship, sport and democracy in… — Joan Laporta Copy Share Image
The history of creation is but a succession of battles between amateurs of genius-inspired heretics- and orthodox professionals. — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
“There is no great person in history who gained mastery in a particular skill without first investing so much time into perfecting… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
History and experience tell us that moral progress comes not in comfortable and complacent times, but out of trial and confusion. — Gerald R. Ford Copy Share Image
“We were once the ones who were dreaming and loving and screwing. We were once the ones who were living, and then… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
A President and his wise men can only propose; but Congress disposes. It is when President and Congress agree that American history… — Theodore White Copy Share Image
“You will leave your foot print in the sand of history if you understand and apply the power of time conversion.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“P3- neither the life of an individual nor the history off a society can be understood without understanding both” — C.Wright Mills Copy Share Image
“The greatest people in history were those who lived a life of significance and service. You can join them if you’re willing… — Mensah Oteh Copy Share Image
The irony about Charles II is not that he came to the throne because England needed a successor to Charles I, but… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
Throughout this evolution from left to right, Beard always detested war. Hence his writings were slanted to show that the military side… — Samuel E. Morison Copy Share Image
Just now one of the significant historical roles of the primal people of the world is not simply to sustain their own… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
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