I was born in England and went to school there. That's when I discovered my undying passion for history - not just… — Virginia Henley Copy Share Image
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One of the most persistent fallacies about the Christian Church is that it kept learning alive during the Dark and Middle Ages.… — Margaret E. Knight Copy Share Image
You and I are now nearly in middle age, and have not yet become soured and shrivelled with the wear and tear… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
We have no functioning parliament in Egypt and months ago Mohammed Morsi assumed legislative functions. Now he's decided that there should be… — Mohamed ElBaradei Copy Share Image
“There is no greater motor for architecture than religious fervor. Ancient examples include the Inca, Aztec Egyptian civilizations. In more recent times,… — Helen Grant Ross Copy Share Image
Marriage is not something that can be accomplished all at once; it has to be constantly reaccomplished. A couple must never indulge… — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
“Are You Ready for New Urban Fragrances? Yeah, I guess I'm ready, but listen: Perfume is a disguise. Since the middle ages,… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“Science uses the Red Shift to measure deep cosmic distances. But how to measure deep historic time? How about—the Saffron Shift. If… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
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“The same source that tipped us off about her and Wu at Kvarnen says that she used to hang out with a… — Stieg Larsson Copy Share Image
“What Joan impressed on the men by her faith and her actions, then, had more to do with the things of God… — Donald Spoto Copy Share Image
“Such was the ugly face of the Middle Ages. It is not surprising that mathematics made little progress; toward the Renaissance, European… — Petr Beckman Copy Share Image
“Why did you come? Oh, I know what you are going to say. You felt that, cost what it might, you had… — Wodehouse Copy Share Image
From youth to middle, and often to past middle, age, most men are apt to be too closely engaged in the struggle… — Richard A. Proctor Copy Share Image
There is a spell in mediaeval Art which has had power to bewitch some people into trying, or wishing to try, or… — Goldwin Smith Copy Share Image
“Last fight I had with the bitch ended way too soon.” Eddie rolled his eyes and glanced at Jim. “It was back… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
Someone once said that middle age is like rereading a book that you haven't read since you were a callow youth. The… — Eda LeShan Copy Share Image
...it would be a mistake...to ascribe to Roman legal conceptions an undivided sway over the development of law and institutions during the… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
In my mind, if you went back to the Middle Ages, in Italy they'd be speaking Middle Age Italian. And at that… — Jeff Baena Copy Share Image
“This is 1955, for heaven’s sake. Not the Middle Ages! Of course, it doesn’t help having the bloody Tories still in power… — Anthony Horowitz Copy Share Image
For three hundred years we have had our focus on the individual. We have distinguished him from the objective world as the… — John Grierson Copy Share Image
“[On Dr. Strangelove ]: My idea of doing it as a nightmare comedy came in the early weeks of working on the… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
[My father] had a massive middle-age breakdown. And left the family. And then it just completely fell apart. And my mother was… — Bryan Cranston Copy Share Image
If the feudal knight was the clearest embodiment of society in the early Middle Ages, and the "bourgeois" under Capitalism, the educated… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
“It seemed strange, the Muslim Maghrib prayer aboard a Viking ship full of atheists and pagans. Then again, Samirah's ancestors had been… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
“They direct their attacks not against the bourgeois conditions of production, but against the instruments of production themselves; they destroy imported wares… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“The Renaissance invented the Middle Ages in order to define itself; the Enlightenment perpetuated them in order to admire itself; and the… — Brian Stock Copy Share Image
Under the Assads, Kurds were forbidden from learning their own language at school, or even from speaking it in the military. The… — Luke Harding Copy Share Image
I do know middle age can bring greater depth, greater wisdom, greater capacity for love, greater capacity for relationship, greater consciousness and… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
If the men of the Middle Ages... lived in filth and discomfort, it was not for any lack of ability to change… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
If catastrophic geology had at times pushed Nature to almost indecent extremes of haste, uniformitarian geology, on the other hand, had erred… — William Johnson Sollas Copy Share Image
“I believe that the military-industrial state will eventually collapse, possibly even in our lifetime, and that a majority of us (if prepared)… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
If anything, todays patterns are beginning to resemble the multi-layered complexities of the high middle ages, and not simply as played out… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
“When humanity finally emerges from the Middle Ages altogether, when he stops connecting psychic behavior with"the work of the Devil" or with… — Daniel Logan Copy Share Image
There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature… — Edward Hoagland Copy Share Image
“In the late Middle Ages the stupefying simplicity of the heliocentric model was used as an argument to discredit the new astronomy.… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
In the Middle Ages, psychosis may have involved visions of the devil, snakes, or witches. In the 21st century, it can involve… — Zeynep Tufekci Copy Share Image
Most established novelists are writing books informed by experiences gained in their youth. Middle age is not the best time to be… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
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