There is romance, the genuine glinting stuff, in typewriters, and not merely in their development from clumsy giants into agile dwarfs, but… — J. B. Priestley Copy Share Image
“See him. You could say that he's sustained by his fellow men, like you. Has peopled the shore with them calling to… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“What is history? What is its significance for humanity? Dr. J. H. Robinson gives us a precise answer: "Man's abject dependence on… — Alfred Korzybski Copy Share Image
“So often I wonder, do all brothers end up at Kitty Hawk? Flipping a coin to write history. One will fly. The… — Michael Hainey Copy Share Image
“Both of these positions, inevitability and eternity, are antihistorical. The only thing that stands between them is history itself. History allows us… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
The most common form of giantism is a condition called acromegaly, and acromegaly is caused by a benign tumor on your pituitary… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
The fall of the Berlin Wall is very much a sequel, a continuation of the story about Eastern Europe emerging from war… — Serge Schmemann Copy Share Image
“When the Bible is understood in its literary and historical context; errors, contradictions, and inconsistencies pose no threat to spirituality, whether that… — Valerie Tarico Copy Share Image
Apostasy occurs when a church leaves its historic moorings, abandons its historic confessional position, and degenerates into a state where either essential… — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
“An ambitious freshman congresswoman demanded funding to put a public historian in every zip code in the country, a correction for what… — Danielle Evans Copy Share Image
There's a history of artists being taken advantage of, and artists have to keep criticizing and keep skepticism at a high level.… — Jack Conte Copy Share Image
When we of the so-called better classes are scared as men were never scared in history at material ugliness and hardship; when… — William James Copy Share Image
“One life and another: that’s what matters. You have to understand: history can change people, but people can change history too. Because… — Dexter Palmer Copy Share Image
“If we are not applying the lessons to be gained from yesterday's history to address the problems of today - then why… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
Historically marginalized populations have already had less access to wealth and credit building opportunities, and the continued use of credit histories to… — Rashida Tlaib Copy Share Image
“Let us suppose we are confronted with a desperate thing – say Pimlico. If we think what is really best for Pimlico… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“For these reasons they should not hesitate to exchange peace for war. If wise men remain quiet, while they are not injured,… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
History has been male and the future is female. Leaning on women as a body and the female archetype, and not just… — Antony Hegarty Copy Share Image
My father was not only a planetary scientist and a great popularizer of science, but he thought very deeply about the world.… — Nick Sagan Copy Share Image
'Big Sky Mountain' is the story of Hutch Carmody and Kendra Shepherd, lovers with a history, and a lot of hurt pride.… — Linda Lael Miller Copy Share Image
“It’s a collection of pointers that treat the margins as seriously as the noisy center. For change has always happened in the… — Krista Tippett Copy Share Image
Icelandic people are inbred. And they have a sense of themselves as genetically special, and a history of risk-taking because they make… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
“History has taught us that the nature of man is evil, sublimely so. Good is not perfectible, but evil is. Why should… — Elizabeth Kostova Copy Share Image
“Here. Here I am. You've taken everything from us, but not who we are! We still exist! One day grass will grow… — Bruno Apitz Copy Share Image
This is not a matter of subjective theory, but of plain, historical fact. If there had never been a nation of Israel,… — Derek Prince Copy Share Image
“Science uses the Red Shift to measure deep cosmic distances. But how to measure deep historic time? How about—the Saffron Shift. If… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
I was never particularly academic, so it was no great surprise when I failed my 11-plus and consequently went to Wibsey Secondary… — Kiki Dee Copy Share Image
Tides of History provides a splendid prism through which we may view the wider world of Victorian science. . . . Historians… — William M. Fowler Copy Share Image
“I can’t think of a better way to describe what it feels like to try and get your head and heart around… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
When I was young, Stephen Hawking wasn't the world's most famous physicist. The fame didn't arrive until the publication of "A Brief… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
“History was not a matter of missing minutes on the tape. I did not stand helpless before it. I hewed to the… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Whenever I've had to tamper with history for plot purposes, I make sure to mention that in my author's note, and I… — Sharon Kay Penman Copy Share Image
In later years, it was common, and I was guilty in this respect, to question the motives of those who joined the… — Sean Lemass Copy Share Image
The so-called 'materialistic conception of history,' with the crude elements of genius of the early form which appeared, for instance, in the… — Max Weber Copy Share Image
“For me to read a book is still And always will be quite a thrill. For me to read a book is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
if I love something I do it, and if I don't, I don't. I think that this is the most important choice… — Lina Wertmuller Copy Share Image
“Just as Wallace learned and evolved, Ali was on his own journey of discovery. Starting out as a 15-year-old cook, Ali learned… — Paul Spencer Sochaczewski Copy Share Image
“There is nothing in which mankind have been more unanimous [founding nations upon superstition]; yet nothing can be inferred from it more… — John Adams Copy Share Image
“This society [Jesuits] has been a greater calamity to mankind than the French Revolution, or Napoleon 's despotism or ideology. It has… — John Adams Copy Share Image
We stopped right in the center and I just stared at how beautiful the summer sky looked. Stark tugged on my arm… — Jade Copy Share Image
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