“Be history, instead of just watching it happen from the sidelines. Try something new, even if it scares you to death. Learn… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“Students of American history may recall that Alexander Hamilton had an affair while in public office, but when he quickly confessed publicly… — Ben Carson Copy Share Image
“Before I go on with this short history, let me make a general observation– the test of a first-rate intelligence is the… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“To make the distinction unmistakably clear: Civilization is the vital force in human history; culture is that inert mass of institutions and… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“Why do we need to be pardoned? What are we to be pardoned for? For not dying of hunger? For not accepting… — Subcomandante Marcos Copy Share Image
“When you don't have, or feel that you don't have, an extra moment to read philosophy, history, or science, when great literature,… — Jeff Davidson Copy Share Image
The history of the development of mechanics is quite indispensable to a full comprehension of the science in its present condition. It… — Ernst Mach Copy Share Image
Growth, growth, growth -- that's all we've known . . . World automobile production is doubling every 10 years; human population growth… — M. King Hubbert Copy Share Image
“At the age of nineteen [44 BC] on my own responsibility and at my own expense I raised an army, with which… — Imperator Caesar Divi Filius Augustus Copy Share Image
“Shakespeare 'never owned a book,' a writer for the New York Times gravely informed readers in one doubting article in 2002. The… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
Art historians agree that Da Vinci's paintings contain hidden levels of meaning that go well beneath the surface of the paint. Many… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
I'm a big fan of Ayrton Senna, but I didn't think he was bad when he lost. I was a true fan,… — Mauricio Rua Copy Share Image
I think the Democrats are catering to them, but, you know, in the entire history of the United States of America, there… — Pat Robertson Copy Share Image
tried to focus on a particular aspect of this historical moment: the failure of mourning. This is something I haven't seen a… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
It is my ambition to be, as a private individual, abolished and voided from history, leaving it markless, no refuse save the… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“I am trying to decide between the whole truth, and nothing but the truth,' he said presently. 'I am afraid my history… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
At least 90 percent of my work is in situ. For me, it's not only to work with the architecture and space,… — Daniel Buren Copy Share Image
I believe in art that is connected to real human feeling, that extends itself beyond the limits of the art world to… — Judy Chicago Copy Share Image
Maybe it's just, I've always been to the less traveled places, in any topic, whether it's history, I always like to just… — Andrew Bird Copy Share Image
If you want to understand what's going to happen, you can't look in the rearview mirror into the United States' history, because… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
“A profound impression was created by the discourses of Professor GN Chakravarti and Mrs Besant, who is said to have risen to… — Henry Olcott Copy Share Image
I suppose being the kind of creatures we [people] are, we like to censor the past, and are selective, or want to… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
“In the 1950s, at the very beginning of the integration process, Raymond Aron wrote that “the European idea is empty, it has… — James J. Sheehan Copy Share Image
Human consciousness arose but a minute before midnight on the geological clock. Yet we mayflies try to bend an ancient world to… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
We must seek support in the moral values that have ensured the progress of our civilization. Honesty and hard work, responsibility and… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
“Shakespeare could not have written without Marlowe, or Marlowe without Chaucer, or Chaucer without those forgotten poets who paved the ways and… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“While no known record exists of the first entreaty to the Greenbrier, resort historian Robert Conte believes it came during the property’s… — Garrett M. Graff Copy Share Image
Srinivasa Ramanujan was the strangest man in all of mathematics, probably in the entire history of science. He has been compared to… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
“There is history the way Tolstoy imagined it, as a great, slow-moving weather system in which even tsars and generals are just… — Louis Menand Copy Share Image
With science and reason throughout history, what people believed turned out to be false. So I like to keep an open mind… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
Linguists have noticed that across the history of language some words start out as obvious, conscious metaphors and then slowly embed themselves… — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
“Imagine, Dracula a pawn in the hands of the infidel. I wasted no time there-I learned everything I could about them, so… — Elizabeth Kostova Copy Share Image
“We should have realized it sooner, at least my father should have, that there was no coming back. Not in September when… — Aanchal Malhotra Copy Share Image
“There's something about these obscure vignettes of former lives that's very powerful. Our woods are full of old cellar holes, tumbled-down chimneys,… — Leslie Land Copy Share Image
For an economy built to last we must invest in what will fuel us for generations to come. This is our history… — Cory Booker Copy Share Image
“The Balkans I know is the Balkans from below: a space of bogoumils- these medieval heretics who fought against the Crusades and… — Andrej Grubačić Copy Share Image
“laboratory. Ours is not a ‘lab faith,’ but a ‘journey faith,’ a historical faith. God has revealed himself as history, not as a compendium… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
“Myth took the place of objectively conceived history. Myth, Michel Tournier has said, is “history everyone already knows.”2 As such, history becomes… — Modris Eksteins Copy Share Image
“Separating fact and fiction in Inca history is impossible, because virtually all the sources available are Spanish accounts of stories that had… — Mark Adams Copy Share Image
The history of intellectual growth and discovery clearly demonstrates the need for unfettered freedom, the right to think the unthinkable, discuss the… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
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![“It is my ambition to be, as a private individual, abolished and voided from history, leaving it markless, no refuse save the printed books. [] It is my aim, and every effort bent, that the sum and history of my life, which in the same sentence is my obit and epitaph too, shall be them both: he…” quote by William Faulkner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/83e/william-faulkner-306_aim_it-is-my-ambition-to-be-as-a-private-ind_349290.png)
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