Perfume has a long and fascinating history and the beautifully crafted bottles used to store it over the centuries demonstrate its importance.… — Judith Miller Copy Share Image
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Americans and other Westerners who want their families to enjoy the blessings of life in a free society should understand that the… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
''History says, don't hope On this side of the grave. But then, once in a lifetime The longed-for tidal wave Of justice… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“All right, let's consider some history here. I see a number of girls are wearing pants. This used to be frowned upon.… — Svetlana Chmakova Copy Share Image
In Rome, I particularly love the history, churches, sculptures and architecture and the fact that you can walk along a tiny cobbled… — Philip Treacy Copy Share Image
(Barry) Bonds' records must remain part of baseball's history. His hits happened. Erase them and there will be discrepancies in baseball's bookkeeping… — George Will Copy Share Image
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The spectator and historian of [Belisarius's] exploits has observed, that amidst the perils of war, he was daring without rashness, prudent without… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“There is no quarrel between science and spirituality. I often hear people of science trying to use it to prove the nonexistence… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
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“The master of the house was an elf-friend—one of those people whose fathers came into the strange stories before the beginning of… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
When the uncultured man sees a stone in the road it tells him no story other than the fact that he sees… — Elisha Gray Copy Share Image
The asking and the answering which history provides may help us to understand, even to frame, the logic of experience to which… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
If you want to avoid criticism, then you shouldn't be a historian, because historians are trying to understand and explain. If you're… — Timothy D. Snyder Copy Share Image
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson were political enemies, but they became fast friends. And when they passed away on the same day,… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
Jane Austen has often been praised as a natural historian. She is a naturalist among tame animals. She does not study men… — Robert Wilson Lynd Copy Share Image
I am a taxonomist, I work in the descriptive, narrative sciences of natural history. Unfortunately there is this status ordering from physics,… — Richard Lewontin Copy Share Image
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I actually started working in Chicago while I was still a student; I did the Chicago premiere of 'The History Boys' at… — Alex Weisman Copy Share Image
The history of clothing practices provides guidance for fashioning a new ethic that emphasizes quality over quantity, longevity over novelty, and versatility… — Juliet B. Schor Copy Share Image
There are a lot of problems involved in comparative history. You never know if you're getting the comparisons weighted rightly, you're bound… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For the best part of my childhood I visited the local library three or four times a week, hunching in the stacks… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
Human history can be viewed as a slowly dawning awareness that we are members of a larger group Groups of people from… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
From our human experience and history, at least as far as I am informed, I know that everything essential and great has… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
During my lifetime I have dedicated myself to this struggle of the African people. I have fought against white domination, and I… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
I really discovered I had thyroid disease by accident. My son was having some health concerns, and as I filled out his… — Kim Alexis Copy Share Image
“Martin Luther King Jr. was the greatest movement leader in American history. But, as Hillary Clinton once correctly pointed out, his efforts… — Mark Lilla Copy Share Image
“In the entire works of the Jewish historian Josephus (37-c. 100 CE), which constitute hundreds of pages, there are only two paragraphs… — D.M. Murdock Copy Share Image
I've been fortunate enough to witness some of the biggest moments in football history mere yards away from the action, but I… — John Motson Copy Share Image
The present illegitimacy ratio is not only unprecedented in the past two centuries; it is unprecedented, so far as we know, in… — Gertrude Himmelfarb Copy Share Image
This is the first time in the history of mankind that we are setting ourselves the task of intentionally, within a defined… — Christiana Figueres Copy Share Image
They [the mathematicians of the Enlightenment] defined their terms vaguely and used their methods loosely, and the logic of their arguments was… — Tobias Dantzig Copy Share Image
January 30th will be a historic day for the Middle East and the world. The Iraqi people will take the next step… — Dana Rohrabacher Copy Share Image
I don't understand why black people have been so quiescent, so passive over the hundreds of years of American history. Why hasn't… — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
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I don't want to name names because I don't want to draw too many direct comparisons but the history of Fascism is… — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
I had studied history at Brown and didn't feel like doing anything with it. What does one do with a history degree… — Elizabeth Neel Copy Share Image
To believe in Jesus, is to believe that the historic person who lived on this earth more than 2000 years ago was… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
The Founding Fathers were neither passive, death-worshipin g mystics nor mindless, power-seeking looters; as a political group they were a phenomenon unprecedented… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
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