The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future. — Jessamyn West Copy Share Image
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I've done more impeachments than anybody else in the history of the country. — Jim Sensenbrenner Copy Share Image
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“Freaks become norms, and norms become extinct. Monster by monster, evolution advanced” — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
Even the written history [of Abraham Lincoln's times] is poorly understood by most people. — George Saunders Copy Share Image
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When we consider propaganda as the attempt to shape the thoughts and feelings of others, in ways conforming to the aims of… — Randal Marlin Copy Share Image
To those in the executive branch who say ‘just trust us’ when it comes to secret and warrantless surveillance of domestic communications,… — Eric Holder Copy Share Image
The fault line in American history is now a dividing line in the election and it's changing the conversation. — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
The Democrats filibustered something in the Senate when I was eight years old. I don't remember what it was on and I… — Jonathan Krohn Copy Share Image
I suspect millions of people from my generation probably have comparable stories to tell: if not of sports simulations then of Dungeons… — Steven Johnson Copy Share Image
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I think about what I eat every day. I try to eat as locally as I can and as healthily as I… — Marcie Cohen Ferris Copy Share Image
“I don’t know that we ever ‘get rid’ of our woundedness. Our wounding experiences are a part of our history. We can,… — Katherine Woodward Thomas Copy Share Image
I spent on the Other Earth many "other years," wandering from mind to mind and country to country, but I did not… — Olaf Stapledon Copy Share Image
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