“Can you imagine? Fourteen-hundred-year-old views of history determining how neighbors interacted in the twentieth century? No. You can't. Because history here is… — Nafisa Haji Copy Share Image
“Matthews' shout of treason in the House was no random outburst of lunacy, but the last act in an astonishing adventure: one… — Mike Jay Copy Share Image
The source of most human violence and suffering has been a hidden children's holocaust throughout history, whereby billions of innocent human beings… — Lloyd deMause Copy Share Image
I would say there are different kinds of poems. There are things that poets in the history of poetry hit upon when… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
Man you can define; but the true essence of any man, say, for instance, of Abraham Lincoln, remains the endlessly elusive and… — Josiah Royce Copy Share Image
If history could prove and teach us anything, it would be the private ownership of the means of production as a necessary… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“Faggot, queer, fairy. Those words aren’t taught in a history course. You don’t learn them with the alphabet. Discrimination comes from the… — Dan Skinner Copy Share Image
“Looking at the sweep of Christian history, we are often reminded of this message of the transience of human affairs, and, based… — Philip Jenkins Copy Share Image
History is replete with examples of what happens when any group of authorities do not have to answer to empirical evidence but… — Robert Todd Carroll Copy Share Image
God knows that some of the greatest souls who have ever lived are those who will never appear in the chronicles of… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image
“But the spectacle perceived does not partake of pure being. Taken exactly as I see it, it is a moment of my… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
“There are many ways to measure a manager’s success and contributions to a franchise ... but in this case the two numbers… — Tucker Elliot Copy Share Image
“Many Christians with Ph.D.'s have simply absorbed a two-track approach to their subject, treating science or sociology or history as though it… — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
“Judaeo-Christian legacy informs the way that even most materialist sceptic thinks and behaves. Whether we like it or not, that legacy has… — Lynn Picknett Copy Share Image
“The full details of the strange tale are recorded in what is perhaps the weirdest case name in American legal history: United… — Tom Wainwright Copy Share Image
You can build the most important companies in history with a very simple to describe concept. You can market products in less… — Keith Rabois Copy Share Image
People like Frank Zappa and Bryan Ferry knew we could pick and choose from the history of music, stick things together looking… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
Part of what made the Macintosh great was that the people working on it were musicians, poets, and artists, and zoologists, and… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
Each man lives for himself, uses his freedom to achieve his personal goals, and feels with his whole being that right now… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The imprudent Maximus disregarded these salutary considerations: he gratified his resentment and ambition; he saw the bleeding corpse of Valentinian at his… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
What did it for me was a blurb on the back of a book I was reading. The blurber wrote - I… — Debra Hamel Copy Share Image
“Margaret...you must know that you could never change your own life. You are a girl: girls have no choice. You could never… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
The hardest problems of all in law enforcement are those involving a conflict of law and local customs. History has recorded many… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
I think everyone should understand history of segregation the same way we had to go to school and read about George Washington.… — Mary J. Blige Copy Share Image
The aim of science is to discover and illuminate truth. And that, I take it, is the aim of literature, whether biography… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
The meetings of the legislature at Springfield then first brought together that splendid group of young men of genius whose phenomenal careers… — John George Nicolay Copy Share Image
“Trying to look at the whole of the past is, it seems to me, like using a map of the world. No… — David Christian Copy Share Image
Historians will look back on this era and how the Internet changed what we value, what we consider art, the way we… — Debra Monroe Copy Share Image
“During most all of human evolution, it was adaptive to conserve energy by being lazy as circumstances permitted. Energy was a vitally… — Randolph M. Nesse Copy Share Image
Juliet is one of those rare novels that has it all: lush prose, tightly intertwined parallel narratives, intrigue, and historical detail all… — Sara Gruen Copy Share Image
I remember my last game for Newcastle in the pre-season, when their fans were singing that they wanted me to stay, but… — Georginio Wijnaldum Copy Share Image
Beyond natural history Other biological sciences take up the study at other levels of organization: dissecting the individual into organs and tissues… — Marston Bates Copy Share Image
History has a long-range perspective. It ultimately passes stern judgment on tyrants and vindicates those who fought, suffered, were imprisoned, and died… — Elizabeth Gurley Flynn Copy Share Image
I'm sure that was the right step, even though, formally speaking, it may seem disadvantageous for a president to resign. But, looking… — Eduard Shevardnadze Copy Share Image
If you're trying to do something wholly new, it's hard to fully trust it. But if you use forms that have come… — Johnny Flynn Copy Share Image
“By journey's end the brides were much better acquainted with their grooms and more or less pleased with the matches. Sybil Bingham… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
We humans are still a very primitive culture, and it's one of the traps we've fallen into over the course of our… — RuPaul Copy Share Image
“History books call it the Underworld. Or even hell. But I know it’s neither. It is really called the Everneath, and it’s… — Brodi Ashton Copy Share Image
“I must talk, and you must listen, for we are engaged here in the most important pursuit in history: the search for… — John Green Copy Share Image
Never before in human history have so few owed so much to so many, Mr. Jiabao. A handful of men in this… — Aravind Adiga Copy Share Image
