History tells us more than we want to know about what is wrong with man, and we can hardly turn a page… — George Leonard Copy Share Image
Shamanism has a long history and exists to this day because of its ties to universal emotions such as happiness, sorrow, resentment,… — Hyon Gyon Copy Share Image
“The nature of history itself defies us. To know with certainty what the last Dragon Emperor thought or planned or schemed would… — Daniel Abraham Copy Share Image
We have to start processing what we're really made of in America. American character is not dead. American integrity and honesty are… — Josh Fox Copy Share Image
I was, from early on, interested in science. And my parents were very obliging about that. My father used to take me… — Whitfield Diffie Copy Share Image
“If the Pentateuch is not inspired in its astronomy, geology, geography, history or philosophy, if it is not inspired concerning slavery, polygamy,… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“Apalachicola is an historic coastal town with many old homes of distinction and a small center of town that is invaded by… — M.W.Gordon Copy Share Image
“It is one of the great examples,” as Friedrich Meinecke, the eminent German historian, said, “of the singular and incalculable power of… — William L. Shirer Copy Share Image
“I saw no unity of purpose, no consensus on matters of philosophy or history or law. The very facts were shrouded in… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
“dealing with our past is not making it blank like a shaken Etch A Sketch®, erasing all traces of history and its… — Ramon Presson Copy Share Image
These are illusions of popular history which successful religion must promote: Evil men never prosper; only the brave deserve the fair; honesty… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“If you believe the Bible is true, you ought to know that demons are real. The Bible is filled with references of… — D.L. Koontz Copy Share Image
“Greeks did not invent philosophy, philosophy had existed across Latin America, Africa, Arabia, India and China, thousands of years earlier, not as… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
At a purely practical level, history is important because it provides the basic skills needed for students to go further in sociology,… — Antony Beevor Copy Share Image
“Behaviorism was but one instance of a terrible temptation for all intellectuals, namely that of nothing-but-ism. History is nothing but the clash… — Theodore Dalrymple Copy Share Image
I did loved my ex so much, but through time I had to let go, she bacame one of my past stories.… — Simphiwe Scientist Dumi Copy Share Image
“No one can know, of course, accurate population figures from an era before there was a census, but many officials on the… — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
“The history books say that life before the Revolution was completely different from what it is now. There was the most terrible… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Finally, we will also discuss how the failure of nations today is heavily influenced by their institutional histories, how much policy advice… — Daron Acemoğlu Copy Share Image
“Who was this mysterious founding member of an order that would grow in such prominence in history and legend? Why was this… — James Rollins Copy Share Image
Real history is far more complex and interesting than the simplistic summaries presented in Wikipedia articles. Knowing this allows you to question… — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
Part of the fabric of America is that we have people from different countries who've come here and they are American, and… — Lee Isaac Chung Copy Share Image
“History has been so fascinated with Alexander the Great that it has overlooked the genius of his father. But by his supreme… — Philip Freeman Copy Share Image
“The extension of the moral-historical perspective makes the meaning of the thesis of the athletic and somatic renaissance apparent. At the transition… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
As a novelist, I cannot occupy myself with "characters," or at any rate central ones, who lack panache, in one or another… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
We've achieved this historic progress through diplomacy, without resorting to another war in the Middle East. I want to also point out… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
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My feeling about young people who want to pursue a career is - the first thing is do your homework on where… — Lorna Luft Copy Share Image
“THE HUMAN COMMUNITY has reached a critical point in its history. The world today forces us to accept that humanity is one.… — Dalai Lama XIV Copy Share Image
“But what is the philosophy of this generation? Not God is dead, that point was passed long ago. Perhaps it should be… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
[The] events by which the fate of nations is not materially changed, leave a faint impression on the page of history, and… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
To be honest, the core reason why I became an actor was that I didn't want to go to school. That's where… — Ranbir Kapoor Copy Share Image
“I tried to put the displacement between parenthesis, to put a last period in a long sentence of the sadness of history,… — Mourid Barghouti Copy Share Image
“Studentdom, he felt, must pass its own Examinations and define its own Commencement--a slow, most painful process, made the more anguishing by… — John Barth Copy Share Image
“It was early in my career, and I had been seeing Mary, a shy, lonely, and physically collapsed young woman, for about three months… — Bessel A. van der Kolk Copy Share Image
But, historians, and even common sense, may inform us, that, however specious these ideas of perfect equality may seem, they are really,… — David Hume Copy Share Image
I think choosing Steve Bannon as a chief strategist this is a stunning, historic decision for Donald Trump in a bad way.… — David Corn Copy Share Image
“Really? Gryffindor came from Godric’s Hollow?” “Harry, did you ever even open A History of Magic ?” “Erm,” he said, smiling for… — J.K. Rowling Copy Share Image
It's really important that when you come to a club, you know the history. My dream was always Real Madrid or Barcelona,… — Rafael van der Vaart Copy Share Image
There are many faculties in man, each of which takes its turn of activity, and that faculty which is paramount in any… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
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