For most of history, war has been a more or less functional institution, providing benefits for those societies that were good at… — Gwynne Dyer Copy Share Image
It is not history, theology or mythology that interest me. It is the fact that history, theology or mythology could have alternative… — Ashwin Sanghi Copy Share Image
The current relationship between Syria and Iran is abnormal. It is unprecedented in Syria's foreign policy history. A new Syria will be… — Burhan Ghalioun Copy Share Image
The single most important thing is to know the game. Study the history of the game, the fine points of the game,… — Marty Glickman Copy Share Image
“Americans have found it particularly difficult to come to terms with our “slave origins,” perhaps because the national history of the United… — Gavin Wright Copy Share Image
“Increasingly economic historians can draw analogies between the development of the present crisis and the period between the two world wars, as… — André Gunder Frank Copy Share Image
Virtually every major technological advance in the history of the human species- back to the invention of stone tools and the domestication… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
With all the movies I've made about history, it's not really fun because you're trying to get it right. You've got history… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
Edinburgh is a world city, visited throughout the year for its beauty and history, but in August, it is the City of… — Dominic Holland Copy Share Image
“The process of becoming great comprises of life’s toughest difficulties, that 99% people quit in the beginning itself, but the one who… — Harshal Gondane Copy Share Image
Christians have to listen to the world as well as to the Word - to science, to history, to what reason and… — William Sloane Coffin Copy Share Image
Dr Dean Burk, who has spent more than fifty years in cancer research, mainly at the National Cancer Institute states: 'More people… — Dean Burk Copy Share Image
“Moreover, it is not just that the early documents are silent about so much of Jesus that came to be recorded in… — George Albert Wells Copy Share Image
To make of human affairs a coherent, precise, predictable whole one must ignore or suppress man as he really is. It is… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“Kuna mambo yanatokea hapa ulimwenguni ambayo yanafanya nikiri uwepo wa Mungu kwa asilimia kubwa. Wanasayansi wanasema ulimwengu ulianzishwa na mlipuko wa ‘Big… — Enock Maregesi Copy Share Image
As a historian of American and African-American religion, I know that the Trayvon Martin moment is just one moment in a history… — Anthea Butler Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I wonder if we can ever really overcome the past. It’s what makes us who we are. One small thing done… — Amanda Stevens Copy Share Image
Sixty thousand blacks are annually embarked from the coast of Guinea, never to return to their native country; but they are embarked… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
I have been interested in the dialogue of abstraction and modernist painting - and the rich history of the grid. I also… — Stephen Beal Copy Share Image
“I don't think there's any deep psychological reason. It isn't comparable, say, to America's involvement with Vietnam and the emotional scars that… — Valerie Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
There are relatively few atheists among neurologists and brain surgeons and astrophysicists, but many among psychologists, sociologists, and historians. The reason seems… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
President Kennedy has named two Negroes to District Judgeships and appointed Thurgood Marshall to the United States Court of Appeals. When I… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
The Olympics have been an amazing part of Los Angeles' history. In many ways in 1932, they put us on the map… — Eric Garcetti Copy Share Image
“History, practical experience, common sense and economic theory all agree: economic competition is probably one of the greatest ideas humans ever came… — Michele Boldrin Copy Share Image
No matter your situation, you can make family history a part of your life right now. Primary children can draw a family… — Russell M. Nelson Copy Share Image
As a graduate student at Oxford in 1963, I began writing about books in revolutionary France, helping to found the discipline of… — Robert Darnton Copy Share Image
“The authorities did not wish to confront those citizens with the sight of the dead. Finally bodies were dumped unidentified into mass… — Susan Griffin Copy Share Image
The year 2008 was a reminder to those who had forgotten that there is such a thing as history and that the… — James Buchan Copy Share Image
We go eastward to realize history and study the works of art and literature, retracingthe steps of the race; we go westward… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
[T]he visibility of styles is itself a product of historical consciousness. ... The very notion of "style" needs to be approached historically.… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Wanted or unwanted, I believe that human life, even at its earliest stages, has certain rights which must be recognized – the… — Edward Kennedy Copy Share Image
Truth and Truthfulness is an ambitious work, and its journeys into history give it a breadth unusual in these days of increased… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
I believe there is some kind of magic that comes just from looking at somebody. In the beginning, I called it "Genius"… — Nir Hod Copy Share Image
Human beings are many-layered creatures, and do not succumb to the hegemony of others as easily as historians and politicians sometimes imply.… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
“Stick out your arms," he'd say, "straight out at your sides," and when he had you in the appropriate cruciform position he'd… — Robert Charles Wilson Copy Share Image
The triumph of the Confederacy... would be a victory for the powers of evil which would give courage to the enemies of… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“Trump does so often that it’s a struggle to remember what’s old news, by the standard of his behavior, and what is… — Katy Tur Copy Share Image
I remember, when I was in university I studied history, and there was this one major historian of the Third Reich, Ian… — Sacha Baron Cohen Copy Share Image
“These three people, Pascal, Blake, and Dostoyevsky, illustrate perfectly what I have long believed to be the case, that history consists of… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
"Filipino" is the Spanish side of our history. The islands were named after King Felipe, so we became known as Filipinos. It's… — Lav Diaz Copy Share Image
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