To believe that I could, at twenty-three, sacrifice history and culture for the Absolute was further proof that I had not understood… — Mircea Eliade Copy Share Image
Our nation has a regrettable history of drawing down our forces and readiness after each conflict, only to find ourselve ill-prepared for… — Mitch McConnell Copy Share Image
Customs and convictions change; respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the change, and the ones most offended by… — John Updike Copy Share Image
But I knew the truth and that's why I was so sad. Every moment before this one depends on this one. Everything… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
The whole sum and substance of human history may be reduced to this maxim: that when man departs from the divine means… — Theodore Parker Copy Share Image
“The battle of Panipat was fought for more than what is usually imagined. It was fought by a people in the far… — Uday S. Kulkarni Copy Share Image
I want a laitywho know their creed so well, that they can give an account of it, who know so much of… — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
“In New Zealand, the deceased must pass through a very narrow space between two demons that try to capture him; if he… — Mircea Eliade Copy Share Image
“Give me liberty or give me death." [From a speech given at Saint John's Church in Richmond, Virginia on March 23, 1775… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
Under President Obama, we have spent more money - he has spent more money than any other president in this history, actually,… — Cathy McMorris Rodgers Copy Share Image
The great untruth around which everything pivots is the idea that the defenders of these statues are the defenders of history and… — David Olusoga Copy Share Image
“But over against this downplaying or mocking we also see, from the earliest documents of the New Testament right on through the… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“It is more difficult to love than to die. It is not death that human beings are most afraid of, it is… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
“Come close, be my buddy, then after a while call me nigga - it won't affect our friendship one bit. But out… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“A historian tries to understand what happened, why it happened, what was the context, who did what, and what assumptions led them… — Diane Ravitch Copy Share Image
“America: I window-peeped four years of our History. It was one long mobile stakeout and kick- the-door-in shakedown. I had a license… — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
I'm fascinated by the period that goes from the Industrial Revolution to right after World War II. There's something about that period… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
The historian ought to be an educated person, writing for other educated people about something which they don't know about, but wish… — John Keegan Copy Share Image
I'm reverent toward my sources. History is a team sport, and references are how you support your teammates. — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
“But you are my queen. No one but you. And I like seeing you wear it. Because as long as you do,… — Soman Chainani Copy Share Image
When you look at Istanbul, from Byzantium to the present day, it's striking how it has always been a city of the… — Bettany Hughes Copy Share Image
“The electrical grounding system is the largest radio frequency (RF) radiation antenna system ever constructed in the history of mankind.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
It's a special club. It's got history. When I slip on the Manchester United shirt, it's like I'm wearing its past. So… — Patrice Evra Copy Share Image
“Over the course of human history, many items have briefly flourished as means of exchange, only to be demonetarized. Now, we have… — Markham Shaw Pyle Copy Share Image
It's hard to imagine anyone interested in film not being a fan of Alfred Hitchcock because he's such a key influence on… — Toby Jones Copy Share Image
It is up to the historians, not politicians, to judge what happened in the past. Politicians look into the future. — Egemen Bag?s Copy Share Image
I always wanted to try to be a teacher even before I was in the music business. I liked history, and good… — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
[B]inary opposites fit nicely the formulation of history as written, but they do little to capture the messy, inchoate reality of history… — Ira Berlin Copy Share Image
It's kind of alarming for me to realize that, when I'm writing stories about times I remember, it's already historical fiction. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“…what else do we have to ensure our sanity except our love for something beyond ourselves―our love for our families, our love… — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
At various periods in American history, people get pretty rambunctious when it comes to our democratic debate. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Great men are usually the products of their times and one of the men developed by these times takes rank with the… — John Moody Copy Share Image
If I look at history, it seems that most wars and most cruel things have been done by men and not by… — Peter Zumthor Copy Share Image
The tattoo of the History is permanent; once a nation or a man is marked by this tattoo, erasing is impossible. — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
I have a degree in European history, which didn't necessarily have any direct impact on my career, but I'm grateful I studied… — Becki Newton Copy Share Image
Bush and Inhofe will go down in history with other leaders such as Herbert Hoover and Neville Chamberlain who were blind to… — Joseph J. Romm Copy Share Image
Democracy has nothing to do with freedom. Democracy is a soft variant of communism, and rarely in the history of ideas has… — Hans-Hermann Hoppe Copy Share Image
Psilocybin, tryptamine, is in my opinion the means to eliminating the future by becoming cognizant of the architecture of eternity, which is… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
It is probably true quite generally that in the history of human thinking the most fruitful developments frequently take place at those… — Werner Heisenberg Copy Share Image
St. Louis has a super-rich history of soccer, so I was very fortunate growing up to have coaches that played. — Becky Sauerbrunn Copy Share Image
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