An impeachable offense is whatever a majority of the House of Representatives considers it to be at a given moment in history;… — Gerald R. Ford Copy Share Image
In 'Spinal Tap,' there's the fake historical quality of 'Stonehenge.' It's something the musicians look at with a mystical reverence. In folk… — Christopher Guest Copy Share Image
I've done some analysis of the biblical stories as part of my psychological work. I knew that I had more to do,… — Jordan Peterson Copy Share Image
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“To demolish this basilica," the king said, " is to pretend our history never happened – an easy way to allow ourselves… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
The minds of youth are perpetually led to the history of Greece and Rime or to Great Britain; Boys are constantly repeating… — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
“With thousands of years of history frozen in time, it's no wonder that many southerners like me romanticize the north as a… — Shannon M Mullen Copy Share Image
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“Drawing on the best modern scholarship, this book seeks to rescue the history of networks from the clutches of the conspiracy theorists,… — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
“But time is like that, it’s a bitter acquaintance that no matter how hard one tries to fight it one can’t. One… — Anna Aquino Copy Share Image
“Očevidno je da ne postoji nikakav smisao povijesti koji bi se dao spasiti leđima okrenutim prema Auschwitzu niti postoji Bog kojemu se… — Johann Baptist Metz Copy Share Image
I tend to learn things physically - I guess it's my dance training. I never want to make too many choices too… — Sharon Lawrence Copy Share Image
I suggest that if you know history, then you might not be so easily fooled by the government when it tells you… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“The philosopher R. G. Collingwood once observed that the past as past was wholly unknowable. What was knowable was something different: the… — Ceri Crossley Copy Share Image
We were kids without fathers, so we found our fathers on wax and on the streets and in history, and in a… — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
On a trip to Cabo San Lucas, I was obsessed with Donna Tartt's 'The Secret History.' We were staying at the Esperanza… — Ioan Gruffudd Copy Share Image
Opera is something you have to educate yourself about. You have to make sure you understand the stories, what was happening politically,… — Jacob Hashimoto Copy Share Image
As a writer of fiction who deals with technology, I necessarily deal with the history of technology and the history of technologically… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
Cuba continues to be a source of instability in the region. For example, historic numbers of people are fleeing the island of… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
I used to be around John Cena all the time in WWE, and I watched him and the way he worked. John… — Drew McIntyre Copy Share Image
Despite history, despite English, despite the noteworthies, and a little bit also despite ourselves, alas!, the Quebecois people have stayed French. I… — Pierre Bourgault Copy Share Image
For a few thousand years, women had no history. Marriage was our calling, and meekness our virtue. Over the last century, in… — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
The history of reform is always identical; it is the comparison of the idea with the fact. Our modes of living are… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I've been searching for a genre that would be most adequate to my vision of the world to convey how my ear… — Svetlana Alexievich Copy Share Image
For the first time in American history, it's not clear whether or not it's smart for a 17-year-old to enroll in college.… — Brian Schatz Copy Share Image
“Wilmington, Del. (AP) June 14, 1966—A fire that destroyed the city’s oldest Negro church has led to the discovery of a wild… — James McBride Copy Share Image
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Paul Robeson once said that the artist has the responsibility to either help liberate the community or further oppress it. And I… — Gil Scott-Heron Copy Share Image
“Wineburg: For the narcissist sees the world—both the past and the present—in his own image. Mature historical understanding teaches us to do… — John Fea Copy Share Image
The alchemists of past centuries tried hard to make the elixir of life: ... Those efforts were in vain; it is not… — Hermann Franz Moritz Kopp Copy Share Image
Throughout our history, the Supreme Court has entered national crises, often preventing presidents from doing what they want to do. Indeed, sometimes… — Nina Totenberg Copy Share Image
In the appendix to my History of the Russian Revolution I give a detailed and documented study of the ideas of the… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
Anti-Americanism is as old as the Republic--a historical constant, which is only remotely related to specific American behavior. So what is new?… — Josef Joffe Copy Share Image
Human nature will not change. In any future great national trial, compared with the men of this, we shall have as weak… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
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However far back we may be able to trace the - so to speak - internal history of the Universe, there can… — Antony Flew Copy Share Image
“Words like “Society” and “State” are so concretized that they are almost personified. In the opinion of the man in the street,… — C.G. Jung Copy Share Image
I think by the age of about nine I recognized that there were a lot of different religions, and it was an… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
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