We all accuse Vladimir Putin of Cold War nostalgia, but Washington's elites - politicians and intellectuals - miss the old days as… — Fareed Zakaria Copy Share Image
“She has been better educated than her sister, and has a more receptive mind. It seems as though someone had sown in… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
“Our dietary problems arise from a mismatch between the tastes evolved for Stone Age conditions and their likely effects today. Fat, sugar,… — Randolph M. Nesse Copy Share Image
“Let that be a reminder to you that the past is one thing, but what we make of it, the conclusions we… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“1. First, human beings are linguistic beings and, as we’ll show, live in concerns unavoidable for linguistic beings. 2. Second, human beings live… — Fernando Flores Copy Share Image
It's an honor for me to close out Mysteryland. In American music history this is hallowed ground. I think electronic music has… — Kaskade Copy Share Image
Why do I write historical fiction? Johnny Tremain, The Witch of Blackbird Pond, Island of the Blue Dolphins-that's why. I'll never forget… — Jennifer Armstrong Copy Share Image
Historians of the future will find it incredible that we mutilated babies by cutting off the end of their penises in the… — Dean Edell Copy Share Image
“Historians often minimize or discount the impact that any one individual can have on human destiny-and for good reason. Given the broad… — Kevin Fedarko Copy Share Image
This, of course, has no chance of passing. But then Tuesday night's State of the Union address could be the first one… — John Podhoretz Copy Share Image
History has taught us: never underestimate the amount of money, time, and effort someone will expend to thwart a security system. It's… — Bruce Schneier Copy Share Image
This is in us: a certain sense of denial, a certain sense of groupthink. This is not something that sits on one… — Craig Mazin Copy Share Image
“There is only One Intelligence,and this Intelligence has a splendid track record in the history of our solar system, guiding each of… — Louise L. Hay Copy Share Image
“The Bible is a collection of stories and myths based on hearsay transmitted from generation to generation and which were recorded by… — Brian Baker Copy Share Image
The word 'Italy' is a geographical expression, a description which is useful shorthand, but has none of the political significance the efforts… — Klemens von Metternich Copy Share Image
After using the 'good offices' of UN diplomacy (economic sanctions and weapons inspections) to ensure that Iraq was brought to its knees,… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
I was living in a terrible time when people were being accused of being communists, and they attacked the movie industry, especially… — Kirk Douglas Copy Share Image
What are the facts? Again and again and again – what are the facts? Shun wishful thinking, ignore divine revelation, forget what… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Negro League had some of the best players in history. Satchel Paige was probably one of the best pitchers in the… — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
I think a Person who is thus terrified with the Imagination of Ghosts and Spectres much more reasonable, than one who contrary… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
I'm the treasurer of the state of Ohio, where, when the United States credit rating was downgraded for the first time in… — Josh Mandel Copy Share Image
“The Ark Encounter will help us do that in a powerful, non-threatening way by simply sharing the truth of God’s Word with… — Ken Ham Copy Share Image
There are those who regard this history of past strife and exile as better forgotten. But, to use the phrase of Yeats,… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
“We are not designed to deal with the many stress-inducing situations of the twenty-first century. For most of human history, the stressors… — Jed Diamond Copy Share Image
We usually break the story first. For instance, on The Monuments Men, and this one is more complicated because there's a lot… — Grant Heslov Copy Share Image
Great clubs have had one thing in common throughout history, regardless of era and tactics. They owned the pitch and they owned… — Arrigo Sacchi Copy Share Image
The chimpanzee and the human share about 99.5 percent of their evolutionary history, yet most human thinkers regard the chimp as a… — Robert Trivers Copy Share Image
In place of the old beliefs of a civilization based on godliness, judgment and historical loyalty, young people are given the new… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
It is merely an accident of history that it is considered normal in our society to believe that the Creator of the… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
scarcely a human being in the course of history has fallen to a woman's rifle; the vast majority of birds and beasts… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
We as Black people have to tell our own stories. We have to document our history. When we allow someone else to… — Erykah Badu Copy Share Image
“We can observe the process in the very earliest records from ancient Mesopotamia; it finds its first philosophical expression in the Vedas,… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
One of the reasons I think that Donald Trump has been a popular figure, he's very available to the media. But he… — Michel Martin Copy Share Image
“Bear in mind, practice is more important than principle. Principles without practice is worthless. Humans of principles may get famous for a… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
I attended classes and taught classes, in Food Anthropology at Pace University, with an anthropology professor. You can trace history by the… — Lidia Bastianich Copy Share Image
I think that we're just too invested in that myth that we are not connected, and are all potential millionaires if only… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
“Kértünk mi ugye védő kart is a Jóistentől, arra az esetre, ha küzdenénk ellenséggel. Meg is kaptuk bőven. Mármint az ellenséget. Előbb… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“All too often, those of us who choose to remain childless are accused of being somehow unwomanly or unnatural or selfish, but… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“humanity in the west can now easily dismiss any claims of authority by God over human history, when humans are so confident… — Gale Heide Copy Share Image
Kids automatically teach each other how to use technology, but they're not going to teach each other about the history of democracy,… — Howard Rheingold Copy Share Image
