“..history is best explained dramatically, because for God's sake nobody's going to tell me that massive Homeric war so to speak, between… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“Never before in history has such a sweeping fervor for freedom expressed itself in great mass movements which are driving down the… — Kwame Nkrumah Copy Share Image
Our country was born out of a desire to be free. And every day since, it's been protected by our men and… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“People like these have done more to relieve human misery than any prophet with a manifesto ever will. They number in the… — Kage Baker Copy Share Image
Chamberlain's stubborn, fanatical insistence on giving Hitler what he wanted, his trips to Berchtesgaden and Godesberg and finally the fateful journey to… — William L. Shirer Copy Share Image
Nobody in real life ever takes me seriously. The Internet makes it possible for people like me to live the way I… — Jane Haddam Copy Share Image
You are a child of the universe, "fearfully and wonderfully made." In the history of creation, there has never been anyone like… — Douglas Bloch Copy Share Image
In the history of literature there are many great enduring works which were not published in the lifetimes of the authors. If… — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
The new age self-help phenomenon is pretty mushy, but it's also very American. Our history is filled with traveling preachers and quack… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
“On the Penobscot River, on the opposite bank from the once-upon-a-time paper mill, stands Fort Knox, proudly named after the nation’s first… — Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater One Copy Share Image
If I had been elected president in 1948, history would be vastly different. I believe we would have stemmed the growth of… — Strom Thurmond Copy Share Image
“But all these hints at foreseeing what actually did happen on the French as well as on the Russian side are only… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I am very proud to come back, to speak on the disinterested effort we have made and I believe that, with all… — John Sherman Cooper Copy Share Image
I believe that reading and writing are the most nourishing forms of meditation anyone has so far found. By reading the writings… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I suppose the marine biology was a post-teen thing. I was kind of on my way but I was one of those… — Giles Deacon Copy Share Image
“As the soil of a garden is richer and as the harvest of the garden bears healthier nourishment from the decay of… — Tim Gilmore This Kind of City Ghost stories and psychological landscapes Copy Share Image
The extraordinary nature of individual black achievement in formerly white domain certainly does suggest that the old Jim Crow is dead, but… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
Shakespeare, who never could think up a plot by himself, found this one [Macbeth] in Holinshed's Chronicles, changing it just enough so… — Richard Armour Copy Share Image
“A fellow undergraduate student, majoring in history, as was I, who didn't care about the advanced aerodynamic principles of things like boundary… — Jerry A. Eichenberger Copy Share Image
A history of listening to Top 40 radio had left me with a ridiculous and clichéd notion of love. I had never… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
“...his consuming interest remains in the world of men, their institutions, their history, their passions. And because he is interested in men,… — Peter L. Berger Copy Share Image
American Education has a long history of infatuation with fads and ill-considered ideas. The current obsession with making our schools work like… — Diane Ravitch Copy Share Image
When I got the call that the Patriots were interested, it was a very surreal feeling. I've always looked up to watching… — Chris Hogan Copy Share Image
I think, as a historian, what strikes one the most about this [Donald'd Trump] program is just simply its nationalism, with his… — Judy Woodruff Copy Share Image
I wouldn't call it naive but silly. History does not work like this. If you look at the dynamics of Eastern Europe… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
What has history to do with me? Mine is the first and only world! I want to report how I find the… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
An independent Ireland would see its own independence in jeopardy the moment it saw the independence of Britain seriously threatened. Mutual self-interest… — Eamon de Valera Copy Share Image
“To be such a complicated, mysterious piece of biological machinery, and more amazing still, to have the capacity to analyze that machinery!… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
In time, foods such as hamburgers and ice cream became more than just meals. They became part of American history and culture,… — Homaro Cantu Copy Share Image
In the world's history certain inventions and discoveries occurred of peculiar value, on account of their great efficiency in facilitating all other… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Your great country is wonderful at stealing pieces of history and using it for its own purposes, so there didn't seem to… — Michael Apted Copy Share Image
“ethnic groups, but to say that we don’t divide each other into races would be to ignore thousands of years of human… — C.H. Dalton Copy Share Image
“Suddenly all those individuals who yesterday felt that "we" meant only their families, their professions, or perhaps their communities, become men of… — Oswald Spengler Copy Share Image
The best idea ever thought of in the history of humanity is useless unless someone communicates it. It will die in the… — Phil Plait Copy Share Image
The butchering may continue as it will, it shall remain the historical guilt of the Western powers that they did not promptly… — Friedrich Kellner Copy Share Image
I know a guy who writes on the show, it was his episode, and he called and said, "Would you do it?"… — Brent Spiner Copy Share Image
“Though small, the shrine has a long history. In 1333—the Third Year of the Genko era—Lord Takeshigé Kikuchi ascended to it in… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
Yet the arts of Severus cannot be justified by the most ample privileges of state reason. He promised only to betray; he… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
My interest in writing about American history stemmed originally, I think, from a subconscious desire to find roots - I felt like… — Jean Fritz Copy Share Image
History in Burckhardt's words is 'the record of what one age finds worthy of note in another.' The past is intelligible to… — Edward Hallett Carr Copy Share Image
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