“We are reverting to the civilization of luggage, and historians of the future will note how the middle classes accreted possessions without… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
Side by side ... the British and French peoples have advanced to rescue ... mankind from the foulest and most soul-destroying tyranny… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“There is an allegory for historians in the diverse functions of saw, wedge, and axe. The saw works only across the years,… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
“There are, broadly speaking, three directly analogous progressions inthe history of art: in Antiquity, from the blockiness of Egyptian art to the… — Klaus Berger Copy Share Image
The results showed that Joe Mokoena and I had made history. For the first time in the history of education in South… — Oliver Tambo Copy Share Image
In most places and times in human history, babies have had not just one person but lots of people around who were… — Alison Gopnik Copy Share Image
“Because in the end history—like the Berlin Wall—shapes people, had shaped her, but would not in the end determine her, because in… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
Why do we need school? Music: we have youtube for that Sport: theres a wii Spanish: theres dora English: everythings shortened anyway… — Emily Thomas-webb Copy Share Image
It's very exciting, everyone wants to see Aston Villa back in the Premier League and kicking on from there. It's great to… — Mile Jedinak Copy Share Image
My mom was a teacher. In the 1960s and '70s, she taught history at two largely African American public high schools in… — Brett Kavanaugh Copy Share Image
“A phenomenon noticeable throughout history regardless of place or period is the pursuit by governments of policies contrary to their own interests.… — Barbara W. Tuchman Copy Share Image
“That's the thing about knowing someone your entire life. You have a common history; it binds, provides a depth that new friendships,… — Jessica Maria Tuccelli Copy Share Image
“A German goldsmith covered a bit of metal with cloth in the 14th century and gave mankind its first button. It was… — Lyn Hejinian Copy Share Image
On a candid examination of history, we shall find that turbulence, violence, and abuse of power, by the majority, trampling on the… — James Madison Copy Share Image
“During World War II the top secret “Norden XV” or “Blue Ox” otherwise known the Army Airforce’s “Norden M Series Bombsights,” were… — Captain Hank Bracker, "Suppresed I Rise Copy Share Image
This is a long tough road we have to travel. The men that can do things are going to be sought out… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
I think humans have always wrestled with the Divine Idea - an idea that unites and separates, creates and destroys, consoles and… — Robert Winston Copy Share Image
“Perspex - An In Depth Anaylsis on What Works and What Doesn't The history of the Perspex Sheet is entrancing. The story… — Canady White Copy Share Image
“Most employees are like interchangeable machine parts. When they show up to work, there is no trace of the person they replaced,… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
With Britain's departure from the E.U. and the new Trade and Co-operation Agreement we begin the next chapter in our story of… — Suella Braverman Copy Share Image
Unlike modern military codes, ancient texts are almost never purposely misleading, purposely scrambled. ... indeed, literacy was so uncommon until classical times… — E. J. W. Barber Copy Share Image
“I was also aware of three other historically important Christians whose apparently obsessive-compulsive symptoms had become a source of latter-day psychiatric speculation.… — Ian Osborn Copy Share Image
The Reichswirtschaftsministerium ('Reich Ministry of Economic Affairs') tells the shop managers what and how to produce, at what prices and from whom… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
It is undeniable that others and the larger world, so beleaguered at this moment in history, need everything that we have to… — Reginald Ray Copy Share Image
The number of states in the union has been fixed at 50 for so long, few Americans realize that throughout most of… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
The totality of our so-called knowledge or beliefs, from the most casual matters of geography and history to the profoundest laws of… — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
To some extent, mythology is only the most ancient history and biography. So far from being false or fabulous in the common… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence, (I conjure you to believe me fellow citizens) the jealousy of a free people ought… — George Washington Copy Share Image
“The social view of humanity, namely that of social ecology, focuses primarily on the historic emergence of hierarchy and the need to… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
If we could travel into the past, it's mind-boggling what would be possible. For one thing, history would become an experimental science,… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
There was a strange atmosphere on the set because we were filming in this large house, which was used for troubled children.… — Beatrice Dalle Copy Share Image
“Let me repeat: the stakes are high. We must confront one of the most massive pseudo-evidences in recent intellectual history: the belief,… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as a criminal life. Life is life, and life is criminalized. No one ever, in the history… — Rhys Ifans Copy Share Image
The simplest way to win in the National Football League is to knock out the starting quarterback. You know, throughout the years,… — Ron Jaworski Copy Share Image
“If you are ready to give up everything else and study the whole history and background of the market and all principal… — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
At this point in history, the desperate need for building a sustainable society and for managing energy usage makes for a really… — Jonathon Keats Copy Share Image
I'm an expert at killing time on planes now. I do a lot of reading. My secret sort of nerdy side is… — Jeremy Irvine Copy Share Image
“You could pay Arthur Janov to teach you to scream about history, or you could learn prayer or a mantra, or you… — Rick Moody Copy Share Image
Evolution as a process that has always gone on in the history of the earth can only be doubted by those who… — Theodosius Dobzhansky Copy Share Image
Music, for centuries and centuries, was used to teach everything. It was used to teach language, mathematics, history. The news was music.… — T Bone Burnett Copy Share Image
