History does include aspects of directionality, and the present range of causes and phenomena does not exhaust the realm of past possibilities. — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“The future historian will rank him as one of the heroes of the nineteenth century. {Stanton's opinion of the great Robert Ingersoll }” — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
I'm a history geek and I love American history. It's so bizarre and so problematic and I love the many conundrums that… — Matana Roberts Copy Share Image
But having a really good understanding of history, literature, psychology, sciences - is very, very important to actually being able to make… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
9/11 was a sort of hinge event in American history, and all jihadi terrorist plots or attacks are kind of filtered through… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
I was able to endure and play a special part in music history. And I always managed to keep working, even if… — Merry Clayton Copy Share Image
It proposed that human beings, by the act of making witness, warranted times and places for their existence other than the time… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Ilkay Gundogan has always gone under the radar with some of the greats but the Manchester City midfielder has one of the… — Chris Sutton Copy Share Image
I think my attitudes about the past are very traditional. You can't ignore history; you can't escape it even if you want… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
“Certainly the fighting around the huge water-tanks on the hillside was continuous for 112 days from the second half of September to… — Andrew Roberts Copy Share Image
See, see Who God is, see the glory of God, going up to Him out of this incomprehensible and infinite Sacrifice in… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
The cry that 'fantasy is escapist' compared to the novel is only an echo of the older cry that novels are 'escapist'… — Tom Shippey Copy Share Image
“The house had a name and a history; the old gentleman taking his tea would have been delighted to tell you these… — Henry James Copy Share Image
Life isn't meant to be easy. It's hard to take being on the top - or on the bottom. I guess I'm… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
“If I considered the Partition an archeological site, and the many experiences of those who witnessed it as the site’s structural sedimentation,… — Aanchal Malhotra Copy Share Image
“The poet doesn’t know what the poem, finally, will be “about” when he uses the word’s etymology as a starting point before… — Natasha Sajé Copy Share Image
I may not be in nobody history book, but before I leave this world I'm gone make sure ya'll can google me. — Ra'Nina Santiago Copy Share Image
“I believe that history repeats itself, and for that reason, I am indebted to my namesake, Huda Al-Sharawy, an Egyptian feminist, and… — Huda Sharawi Copy Share Image
History is fond of her grandchildren, for it offers them the marrow of the bones, which the previous generation had hurt its… — Nikolay Chernyshevsky Copy Share Image
Uncertainty and fear and ignorance about immigrants, about people who are different, has a history as old as our Nation. — Luis Gutierrez Copy Share Image
Why would anyone even bring up the issue (of the statues) in a country where there are more than 10 state-owned institutions… — Gamal El-Ghitani Copy Share Image
Before stinker becoming myself , I want to know the history of sneakiness, so my commonness could become as the legend — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
Just to be part of the history of the Hollywood Bowl - so many people have played there; at least, all of… — Coy Bowles Copy Share Image
That rewriting of literary history is most obvious in the case of The Yage Letters, where I was able to show that… — Oliver Harris Copy Share Image
This is the worst problem with living history museums. They always leave the best parts out. Like typhus. And opium. And scarlet… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“Take a stand that reflects the widest horizons of your soul if you don’t want to be a slave to external powers.” — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
The male clerk with his quill pen and copper-plate handwriting had gone for good. The female short-hand typist took his place. It… — A. J. P. Taylor Copy Share Image
We are the "can do" country. We adjust to situations better than any people in the history of the world... We adjust… — Dan Rather Copy Share Image
It was through watching documentaries on the BBC in the late 1980s that I first became interested in art and history. — David Olusoga Copy Share Image
A second type of direct evidence is formed by statements, whether as formal legends or personal information, regarding the age or relative… — Edward Sapir Copy Share Image
Artists are part of the information process... Visual history is important in providing a record of what is going on - levels… — Leon Golub Copy Share Image
Positive results will come when you start to replace your negative thoughts and habits with positive ones. — Robert Tew Copy Share Image
I have become aware on my travels that when a country loses the connection between its history and its traditional dress, something… — Mario Testino Copy Share Image
There's a hidden history. You see, Malcolm X and [Alex ] Haley collaborated to produce a magnificent narrative about the life of… — Manning Marable Copy Share Image
“Nature had found the perfect place to hide the yellow fever virus. It seeded itself and grew in the blood, blooming yellow… — Molly Caldwell Crosby Copy Share Image
“History looks queer when you're standing close to it, watching where it is coming from and how it's being made.” — Janet Flanner Copy Share Image
If you think about the history of mobile handsets, in many respects there was a time when Asia and then Europe all… — Stephen Elop Copy Share Image
At each epoch of history the world was in a hopeless state, and at each epoch of history the world muddled through;… — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image
American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It is indeed the duty of historians to stress the contrast between the standards of the past and the standards of the… — Norman Davies Copy Share Image
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