What we require is not a formal return to tradition and religion, but a rereading, a reinterpretation, of our history that can… — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
America has a long history of pride in the military uniform, and the Army has a 362-page directive on proper uniform wear.… — Martha McSally Copy Share Image
“The politics of inevitability is a self-induced intellectual coma. So long as there was a contest between communist and capitalist systems, and… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“For the anarch, things are not so simple, especially when he has a background in history. If he remains free of being… — Ernst Jünger Copy Share Image
I'd gone to Oxford to do graduate studies in the history of the slave trade, but I came across Georgiana's letters, gave… — Amanda Foreman Copy Share Image
In the old days... it was a basic, cardinal fact that producers didn't have opinions. When I was producing natural history programmes,… — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
“This history has for so long lived like a spider in my breast. The spider spins and spins, catching memories in its… — Kathleen Kent Copy Share Image
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The war with Iraq ... had to be one of the greatest non sequiturs in military history. Attacked by a gang composed… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
We need to learn from history. These same leaders - [Barack] Obama, [Hillary] Clinton, and far too many Republicans - want to… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
Indeed, I suspect that the changes that have taken place during the last century in the average man's fundamental beliefs, in his… — Robert Andrews Millikan Copy Share Image
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History teaches us that the capacity of things to get worse is limitless. Roman history suggests that the short, happy life of… — Chalmers Johnson Copy Share Image
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The first glance at History convinces us that the actions of men proceed from their needs, their passions, their characters and talents;… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
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“I almost shudder at the thought of alluding to the most fatal example of the abuses of grief which the history of… — John Adams Copy Share Image
There is a history of mathematical models of oligopolistic competition dating from Cournot to the theory of games. There is also a… — Martin Shubik Copy Share Image
“Harry Truman—the man who won the four-way 1948 presidential campaign, triumphing over the segregationist Thurmond, the Progressive candidate Henry A. Wallace, and… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
“Full confession: I am not dispassionate and unbiased. I didn't come to genetic genealogy services to be underwhelmed or go back to… — Michael W. Twitty Copy Share Image
All history attests that man has subjected woman to his will, used her as a means to promote his selfish gratification, to… — Sarah Moore Grimke Copy Share Image
“And so begins the strangest campaign in military history : a competent general and a seasoned army of eighty thousand men chased… — William Bolitho Copy Share Image
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“One other important footnote to history: On Sunday, March 16, the same day that JP Morgan Chase announced its purchase of Bear… — Alan S. Blinder Copy Share Image
When I did the Abyssinian mass, I went through the whole history of the church music and the gospel music, even with… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
“That is how they stay so white: by refusing to accept blemish or history. Whiteness isn't about being something, it is about… — Mat Johnson Copy Share Image
Mining created Chile. The story of men who go down into the mountain and chip away at minerals in the darkness and… — Ariel Dorfman Copy Share Image
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World War II is the war that made our world. There's no question about that. The history of all the years in… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
The medieval Islamic world, from Central Asia to the shores of the Atlantic, was a world where scholars and men of learning… — Prince Charles Copy Share Image
Few developments central to the history of art have been so misrepresented or misunderstood as the brief, brave, glorious, doomed life of… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
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How can even the best novelist or playwright invent someone like Augustus Caesar or Catherine the Great, Galileo or Florence Nightingale? How… — Margaret MacMillan Copy Share Image
Throughout the history of the Internet, most of the innovation has come as a by-product of efforts to facilitate communication within social… — John Quiggin Copy Share Image
“The two came to differ on many, if not most, issues. But the man who would single-handedly defy Hitler in 1940 against… — Arthur Herman Copy Share Image
You may not always have a comfortable life and you will not always be able to solve all of the world's problems… — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
I believe the example of the Zapatistas is a very relevant historical example. I would say it is one of the forms… — Bocafloja Copy Share Image
It may help to understand human affairs to be clear that most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Then we will do two things," Penumbra says, nodding. "First, I will tell you just a little of our history. Then, to… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
![“We need to learn from history. These same leaders - [Barack] Obama, [Hillary] Clinton, and far too many Republicans - want to topple [Bashar] Assad. Assad is a bad man. Gadhafi was a bad man. Mubarak had a terrible human rights record. But they were assisting us - at least [Muammar] Gadhafi and…” quote by Ted Cruz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/11c/ted-cruz-487_assad_we-need-to-learn-from-history-these-same_3228031.png)
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