“Today's youth cannot escape the shadow of racism that has been passed down organically from parents and others who cling to a… — Thomas Norman DeWolf Copy Share Image
Name me any liquid except our own blood that flows more intimately and incessantly through the labyrinth of symbols we have conceived… — Clifton Fadiman Copy Share Image
“Altogether forty-five Emperors had claimed the Spear of Destiny as their possession between the coronation in Rome of Charlemagne and the fall… — Trevor Ravenscroft Copy Share Image
“As anyone who read religious history could attest nothing cemented people's belief faster than a human being dying for his cause. Christ… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
The selective winnowing of time leaves only a few recognizable individuals behind for the historian to light on. Thus the historian who… — C. V. Wedgwood Copy Share Image
I find my husband's family history fascinating, as they can trace the family lineage back to ancestors who fought, and died, in… — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
So much of history is mystery. We don't know what is lost forever, what will surface again. All objects exist in a… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was Dostoevsky… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
“The anger that was coursing through America deeply worried her. Although she was too young to remember the beginnings of the civil… — John Sandford Copy Share Image
The history of taxation shows that taxes which are inherently excessive are not paid. The high rates inevitably put pressure upon the… — Andrew Mellon Copy Share Image
I will not go so far as to say that to construct a history of thought without profound study of the mathematical… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
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“If I could go back to a point in history to try to get things to come out differently, I would go… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It could be sci-fi, love story, historical drama what counts for me is the fact that they're made by great directors with… — Alexandre Desplat Copy Share Image
We don't know when our name came into being or how some distant ancestor acquired it. We don't understand our name at… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Another important historical factor is the fact that this already very simple religion was further simplified and purified by the early philosophers… — Hu Shih Copy Share Image
People often of masterful intelligence, trained usually in law or economics or perhaps in political science, who have led their governments into… — Michael Howard Copy Share Image
[Louis] Brandeis, like [Tomas] Jefferson, is an equal opportunity critic of bigness. And he, like Jefferson, sees American history as this incredible… — Jeffrey Rosen Copy Share Image
“Historians concluded that in the twentieth century about sixty genocides had occurred in the world, but not all of them entered historical… — Patrik Ouředník Copy Share Image
What borders on the criminal is the poor teaching and neglect of those subjects that deal with the history of ideas and… — John Mortimer Smith Copy Share Image
After spending 460 days as a hostage, I did emerge a fundamentally changed person. But I think, like everyone does as they… — Amanda Lindhout Copy Share Image
I used to refer to my photos as free radicals - and maybe that has to do with this idea of navigating… — Elad Lassry Copy Share Image
“For African Americans, unfreedom is the historical norm. Enslavement lasted for nearly 250 years. The 150 years that followed have encompassed debt… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“... my aim in writing The Watch That Ends the Night was not to present history. My aim was to present humanity.… — Allan Wolf Copy Share Image
As a financial historian, I was quite isolated in Oxford - British historians are supposed to write about kings - so the… — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
Let's face a historical truth: we have never had a "free market", we have always had government intervention in the economy, and… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“For history and for science facts are self-evident and are the subject-matter of these studies, but for philosophy they are the most… — Michael Oakeshott Copy Share Image
There are so many people who have a training in art history; and if you've spent time looking at old art, you… — Laura Belem Copy Share Image
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“It is an observation suggested by all history, and by none more than by that of James I and his successor [Charles… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“At Bow Street Magistrates' Court the essential facts were established. The man's name was James Tilly Matthews. He was a pauper of… — Mike Jay Copy Share Image
“In all societies, public rhetoric involves some measure of lying, and history -- political history and art history -- is made when… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
While they trace their history back to wars that helped to ethnically cleanse Native Americans and to their exploits in the Civil… — Brendan Sexton III Copy Share Image
“Little things matter far more than big ones. We remember them longer. We can’t control the big things. If you think about… — Joey W. Hill Copy Share Image
“The exodus across the plains in the fifteen years before the Civil War, when more than 400,000 pioneers made the trek between… — Rinker Buck Copy Share Image
I am the son of two civilizations that at a certain age in history have formed a happy marriage. The first of… — Naguib Mahfouz Copy Share Image
All migrants leave their pasts behind, although some try to pack it into bundles and boxes-but on the journey something seeps out… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Old Lights include the resurgent fundamentalists in every religion who put a freeze on history and fortify their adherents against the "new… — Leonard Sweet Copy Share Image
People here are quite struck aback at Sunday's news of the capture of New Orleans. It took them three days to make… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
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