We have reached a moment in our history where we think that every problem in America has to have a federal government… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
“HSPs tend to fill that advisor role. We are the writers, historians, philosophers, judges, artists, researchers, theologians, therapists, teachers, parents, and plain… — Elaine N. Aron Copy Share Image
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In the expressions we adopt to prescribe physical phenomena we necessarily hover between two extremes. We either have to choose a word… — Arthur Schuster Copy Share Image
“when I turn from church history and examine myself, I find that I too am vulnerable to the Temptation. I lack the… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
“Think about it. People in the sixteenth century - not to mention in Jesus's time - didn't look like this: perfect skin,… — Julia David Levithan Copy Share Image
The gods are partial to no era, but steadily shines their light in the heavens, while the eye of the beholder is… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“I lived through all these times, these great events, without caring very much, concerned with my own aging rather than the world's.… — Mal Peet Copy Share Image
You have the right of youth to arbitrary, break someone's heart, or played with someone's feelings, or forced to sexually satisfaction from… — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
“The political history of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century America shows that our Constitution emerged from the efforts of a whole people to resolve… — Noel B. Reynolds Copy Share Image
What does it really mean to have something change in you very late in your life, after you've structured your life in… — Debra Granik Copy Share Image
“We can study files for decades, but every so often we are tempted to throw up our hands and declare that history… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
I believe books will never disappear. It is impossible for it to happen. Of all man's diverse tools, undoubtedly the most astounding… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
You know, years ago John Calhoun said that West Point men would lead great armies... He never thought they'd be leading them… — Philibert Orry Copy Share Image
When I came to America, I saw the inequality right away with the food industry. And I don't really talk about it… — Dominique Crenn Copy Share Image
There are a lot of chapters to the banjo's history. Part of it are the roots in Africa, where it's a more… — Bela Fleck Copy Share Image
For me. They all stood up at once. Staring. What?? Dallas laughed. I liked you better in the towel. I roll my… — Jade Copy Share Image
But this inestimable privilege was soon violated: with the knowledge of truth the emperor imbibed the maxims of persecution; and the sects… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The war for our Union, with all the constitutional issues which it settled, and all the military lessons which it gathered in,… — William James Copy Share Image
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Mining created Chile. The story of men who go down into the mountain and chip away at minerals in the darkness and… — Ariel Dorfman Copy Share Image
“I have either read or heard this truth, which the Americans should never forget: That the silence of historians is the surest… — Robert Yates George Clinton Samuel Bryan Copy Share Image
The medieval Islamic world, from Central Asia to the shores of the Atlantic, was a world where scholars and men of learning… — Prince Charles Copy Share Image
World War II is the war that made our world. There's no question about that. The history of all the years in… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
“What was needed, was not merely a resolute man, but a man who was also free from the net of legal controls.… — Livy Copy Share Image
“Put all these numbers together and what do they add up to? In a sentence: We are the healthiest, wealthiest, and longest-lived… — Daniel Gardner Copy Share Image
“I almost shudder at the thought of alluding to the most fatal example of the abuses of grief which the history of… — John Adams Copy Share Image
The first glance at History convinces us that the actions of men proceed from their needs, their passions, their characters and talents;… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
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All history attests that man has subjected woman to his will, used her as a means to promote his selfish gratification, to… — Sarah Moore Grimke Copy Share Image
“And so begins the strangest campaign in military history : a competent general and a seasoned army of eighty thousand men chased… — William Bolitho Copy Share Image
Repeal the Missouri Compromise - repeal all compromises - repeal the Declaration of Independence - repeal all past history, you still cannot… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
There is a history of mathematical models of oligopolistic competition dating from Cournot to the theory of games. There is also a… — Martin Shubik Copy Share Image
“Harry Truman—the man who won the four-way 1948 presidential campaign, triumphing over the segregationist Thurmond, the Progressive candidate Henry A. Wallace, and… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
“One other important footnote to history: On Sunday, March 16, the same day that JP Morgan Chase announced its purchase of Bear… — Alan S. Blinder Copy Share Image
“The politics of inevitability is a self-induced intellectual coma. So long as there was a contest between communist and capitalist systems, and… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“For the anarch, things are not so simple, especially when he has a background in history. If he remains free of being… — Ernst Jünger Copy Share Image
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What we require is not a formal return to tradition and religion, but a rereading, a reinterpretation, of our history that can… — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
