Take the entire 4.5-billion-year history of the earth and scale it down to a single year, with January 1 being the origin… — Neil Shubin Copy Share Image
I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts.… — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
There is little history in the study of nature, and there is little nature in the study of history. I want to… — Donald Worster Copy Share Image
Who but the artist has the power to open man up, to set free the imagination? The others - priest, teacher, saint,… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Events are the ephemera of history; they pass across its stage like fireflies, hardly glimpsed before they settle back into darkness and… — Fernand Braudel Copy Share Image
If the universe is a non-spatial computer, a 'time machine' is a program that allows a user to have the same (ontologically… — Kedar Joshi Copy Share Image
“I felt like anything rather than rejoicing at the downfall of a foe who had fought so long and valiantly, and had… — Shelby Foote Copy Share Image
I think it's despicable. I also think it's frightening that we seem to live through history over and over again. And I… — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
“One of the most ambitious men to exploit the timber trade was Hugh F. McDanield, a railroad builder and tie contractor who… — Denele Pitts Campbell Copy Share Image
Staying in a relationship JUST BECAUSE you have history isn't a good enough excuse, sometimes you are in love with nothing more… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Sir, do you know how they were used to fill balloons, and how they now do it?” “No,” said Alverstoke. “I’ve no… — Georgette heyer Copy Share Image
On the human imagination, events produce the effects of time. Thus, he who has travelled far and seen much, is apt to… — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
In the whole history of movies, there has been nothing like Kubrick's vision. It was a vision of hope and wonder, of… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
“When he, whoever of the gods it was, had thus arranged in order and resolved that chaotic mass, and reduced it, thus… — Ovid Copy Share Image
Unlike Hegel's progress model of history, which moves by stages, each containing its own logic of growth and decline, the economic model… — John Carroll Copy Share Image
What's interesting about the 21st century is how people deal with cultural history. We don't necessarily feel like there are discrete categories.… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
Our minds thus grow in spots; and like grease-spots, the spots spread. But we let them spread as little as possible: we… — William James Copy Share Image
In one aspect, my works record the history of the development of Chinese society. Concern about the situation of Chinese reality is… — Liu Bolin Copy Share Image
As with any other great force of nature, there is both glory and danger in the stories we tell ourselves. Some are… — Dawna Markova Copy Share Image
The primary cause of disorder and lawlessness today, as throughout history, is the poverty of the many in contrast to the affluence… — Louis O. Kelso Copy Share Image
The gods are partial to no era, but steadily shines their light in the heavens, while the eye of the beholder is… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“I lived through all these times, these great events, without caring very much, concerned with my own aging rather than the world's.… — Mal Peet Copy Share Image
“The political history of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century America shows that our Constitution emerged from the efforts of a whole people to resolve… — Noel B. Reynolds Copy Share Image
You have the right of youth to arbitrary, break someone's heart, or played with someone's feelings, or forced to sexually satisfaction from… — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
I believe books will never disappear. It is impossible for it to happen. Of all man's diverse tools, undoubtedly the most astounding… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
You know, years ago John Calhoun said that West Point men would lead great armies... He never thought they'd be leading them… — Philibert Orry Copy Share Image
What does it really mean to have something change in you very late in your life, after you've structured your life in… — Debra Granik Copy Share Image
“We can study files for decades, but every so often we are tempted to throw up our hands and declare that history… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
But this inestimable privilege was soon violated: with the knowledge of truth the emperor imbibed the maxims of persecution; and the sects… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The war for our Union, with all the constitutional issues which it settled, and all the military lessons which it gathered in,… — William James Copy Share Image
When I came to America, I saw the inequality right away with the food industry. And I don't really talk about it… — Dominique Crenn Copy Share Image
There are a lot of chapters to the banjo's history. Part of it are the roots in Africa, where it's a more… — Bela Fleck Copy Share Image
For me. They all stood up at once. Staring. What?? Dallas laughed. I liked you better in the towel. I roll my… — Jade Copy Share Image
The triumph of the Confederacy... would be a victory for the powers of evil which would give courage to the enemies of… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“Trump does so often that it’s a struggle to remember what’s old news, by the standard of his behavior, and what is… — Katy Tur Copy Share Image
“Stick out your arms," he'd say, "straight out at your sides," and when he had you in the appropriate cruciform position he'd… — Robert Charles Wilson Copy Share Image
I remember, when I was in university I studied history, and there was this one major historian of the Third Reich, Ian… — Sacha Baron Cohen Copy Share Image
“These three people, Pascal, Blake, and Dostoyevsky, illustrate perfectly what I have long believed to be the case, that history consists of… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
"Filipino" is the Spanish side of our history. The islands were named after King Felipe, so we became known as Filipinos. It's… — Lav Diaz Copy Share Image
We have reached a moment in our history where we think that every problem in America has to have a federal government… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
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