Few names have left a firmer imprint upon the pages of the history of American times than has that of Ty Cobb...… — Douglas MacArthur Copy Share Image
So many struggled so that all of us could have a voice in this great democracy and live up to the first… — Kerry Washington Copy Share Image
History shows us a lot of things. It shows why the Lord's Prayer includes the supplication: "And lead us not into temptation."… — Wolfgang Schauble Copy Share Image
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CHAPTER 3 Searching through the seasons After that night things changed. When I went to parties I no longer saw Stark, at… — Jade Copy Share Image
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The proliferation of bureaucrats and its invariable accompaniment, much heavier tax levies on the productive part of the population, are the recognizable… — William Henry Chamberlin Copy Share Image
“He rubs his nose ruefully. “We…can’t take you home. Yet. We can’t take you home yet. But we will. Soon, I mean.… — Haley Fisher Copy Share Image
The arc of American history almost inevitably moves toward freedom. Whether it's Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation, the expansion of women's rights… — James McGreevey Copy Share Image
Among the older records, we find chapter after chapter of which we can read the characters, and make out their meaning: and… — Adam Sedgwick Copy Share Image
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It's amused me the writers who have assumed that I was referring to a hateful quality of society in the '80s. I… — Mark Flood Copy Share Image
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Had Adam tenderly reproved his wife, and endeavored to lead her to repentance instead of sharing in her guilt, I should be… — Sarah Moore Grimke Copy Share Image
Why do they murder and why do they hate us? Because all of them ... 80 years of history, they all want… — Phil Robertson Copy Share Image
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I believe in all the qualities of being a liberal. I keep going back to all the great social events in our… — George Clooney Copy Share Image
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God will probably allow us to ask questions about and discover some of the things we've always been curious about. Isn't it… — David Berg Copy Share Image
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The history of human conduct does not warrant that exalted opinion of human virtue which would make it wise in a nation… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
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...now he saw the familiar wide river beside the path differently. He saw all of the light and color and history it… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
Chroniclers of the role of paper in history are given to extravagant pronouncements: Architecture would not have been possible without paper. Without… — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
Certainly professionally, yes [I was interested more in history]. And literary criticism, the structure of poetry. But it is primarily as a… — Frank Moore Cross Copy Share Image
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![“[R]eligion was the race's first (and worst) attempt to make sense of reality. It was the best the species could do at a time when we had no concept of physics, chemistry, biology or medicine. We did not know that we lived on a round planet, let alone that the said planet was in orbit in a minor…” quote by Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/15c/christopher-hitchens-117_digestive-system_r-eligion-was-the-race-s-first-and-worst_1384906.jpg)
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![“If [President Obama] does not go on the offensive against ISIS...they are coming here. This is just not about Baghdad, this is just not about Syria, this is about our homeland. And if we get attacked because he has no strategy to protect us, then he will have committed a blunder for the ages.” quote by Lindsey Graham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d5e/lindsey-graham-3593_age_if-president-obama-does-not-go-on-the-of_998412.jpg)
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