We had one or another form of state capitalism during an extremely brief period of human history, which tells us essentially nothing… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Tell me. You're a man who understands history," I said. "If you want to start a revolution, why not issue a manifesto?… — Nicholas Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Let us by all means teach black history, African history, women's history, Hispanic history, Asian history. But let us teach them as… — Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr Copy Share Image
“Indeed, if these final decades of the millennium have taught us anything, it must be that oral tradition never was the ‘other’… — E. Anne Mackay Copy Share Image
“At every historical conjuncture, the present is not only present, it also encompasses a perspective on the past immanent to it—after the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When we work with history, to a very great degree we are all guessing. But by using motifs of time and history… — Guy Gavriel Kay Copy Share Image
“Stories which have failed either to become popular folk lore or to be embalmed in old newspaper files are in great danger… — Ruby Elhult Copy Share Image
History will help to remedy intellectual faults such as excessive concentration on one line of thought, absence of understanding for other points… — Geoffrey Elton Copy Share Image
“Conventional belief holds that after triumphing over a mid-career bout with polio, FDR went on to serve two vigorous terms as gov-… — Steven Lomazow Copy Share Image
That was when I noticed how close this guy was getting. He put his hands on either side of me. Wait when… — Jade Copy Share Image
We started America with the sin of slavery that led right into the post-reconstruction period which was the greatest period of domestic… — Cory Booker Copy Share Image
It is a stern fact of history that no nation that rushed to the abyss ever turned back. Not ever, in the… — Taylor Caldwell Copy Share Image
To close the empathetic gap, you really want to get the person emotionally identifying [with your subject and characters], and then when… — Fred D'Aguiar Copy Share Image
Statesmen think in terms of history and view society as an organism. Prophets are different since they believe absolute aims can be… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
All interesting issues in natural history are questions of relative frequency, not single examples. Everything happens once amidst the richness of nature.… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
One of the most singular facts about the unwritten history of this country is the consummate ability with which Southern influence, Southern… — Anna Julia Cooper Copy Share Image
“Sundays when they could come, my mother would bring a piece of cake and some cookies from the bakery. Of course, the… — Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater One Copy Share Image
The Middle Way included the largest public works project in American history: the Interstate Highway system, which updated American roads for a… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
“By the seventh year of the Bush-Cheney presidency, Bush had attached signing statements to about 150 bills enacted since he took office,… — Charlie Savage Copy Share Image
“When one considers American history as a whole, it is hard to think of any very long period in which it could… — Richard Hofstadter Copy Share Image
“250,000 men and women who worked in the mills are history. Some died, some became disillusioned, others simply lost their minds. Many… — Hussain Zaidi Copy Share Image
When I look at the records and see where my place in the history of the game (in Japan with Orix) might… — Ichiro Suzuki Copy Share Image
Bob Mueller's entire history is as a tenacious prosecutor. And so he will follow the Russia investigation wherever it leads. But the… — Garrett Graff Copy Share Image
I like stories in specific time periods. 'The Revenant's' era of American history was fascinating because it was this lawless no-man's land.… — Leonardo DiCaprio Copy Share Image
It's stupid to claim that one human being is special, or picked out by God, when in fact there are hundreds of… — Louis de Bernieres Copy Share Image
It is idle to say that nations can struggle to outdo each other in building armaments and never use them. History demonstrates… — Frank B. Kellogg Copy Share Image
Fortunately, I come from an activist mother, so I didn't have to rely on the history books. The history books teach us… — Jurnee Smollett Copy Share Image
The simple circumstantial narrative (did such a narrative exist) of the ruin of a single town, of the misfortunes of a single… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“If the painful history of the human and Christian striving for God proves anything, it surely proves this: that any attempt to… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Lenelle Moïse's poems render the abstract - policy, disaster, history, diaspora - specific. Her words make the political not just personal, but… — Erin McKeown Copy Share Image
It was the best first kiss in the history of first kisses. It was as sweet as sugar. And it was warm,… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
Though I'm not religious, I am interested in religion. I read a lot of history and I think it came out of… — Hal Hartley Copy Share Image
“We were, each of us… at a crossroads of public and private dynamics which had brought us to this frame-worthy moment. I… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
Although there are those who wish to ban my books because I have used language that is painful, I have chosen to… — Mildred D. Taylor Copy Share Image
I think it's unfortunate when people say that there is just one true story of science. For one thing, there are many… — Ian Hacking Copy Share Image
“Oh, glorious Art!" thus mused the enthusiastic painter, as he trod the street. "Thou art the image of the Creator's own. The… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
There are a number of World War II historians I admire: Cornelius Ryan, Mark Stoler, Antony Beevor, to name a few. As… — Rick Atkinson Copy Share Image
It's the [George Bush] president's fiscal policies that have driven up the biggest deficits in American history. He's added more debt to… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
Looking back, I realize my favorite stories weren't in books, they were in comics. On top of being a history enthusiast, my… — Jeff Kinney Copy Share Image
This is written in the elder days as the Earth rides close to the rim of eternity, edging nearer to the dying… — Clifford D. Simak Copy Share Image
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