“Anthropology at that time was in transition, moving from the study of men dead and gone to the study of living people,… — Lily King Copy Share Image
In the late 1960s, Ontario Airport was a throwback to a bygone era. Located 35 miles east of downtown Los Angeles, the… — Annie Jacobsen Copy Share Image
“Seth shrugged. "He's already had his funeral pyre" He glanced towards "I reckon the Devil himself was there to welcome Daniel home.… — Grace Willows Copy Share Image
No economic activity was more irrepressible [in the 14th century] than the investment and lending at interest of money; it was the… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
I grew up with landscape as a recourse, with the possibility of exiting the horizontal realm of social relations for a vertical… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Well, I've been reading a lot about the fifty years since the Second World War, about Western foreign policy and all that.… — Thom Yorke Copy Share Image
If in Nietzsche's thinking the prior tradition of Western thought is gathered and completed in a decisive respect, then the confrontation with… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
Many Indians have told me that the most basic difference between Western and indigenous ways of being is that Westerners view the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I was making these damned pictures, I never knew about film noir. If you had asked me about it then, I… — Samuel Fuller Copy Share Image
THE LONG WALK is a raw, wrenching, blood-soaked chronicle of the human cost of war. Brian Castner, the leader of a military… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
But just as he knew the sun was obliged to rise each morning in the east, no matter how much a western… — William Goldman Copy Share Image
Today, hundreds of millions dwell in freedom, from the Baltic to the Adriatic, from the Western Approaches to the Aegean. And while… — David Cameron Copy Share Image
Putin discovered that when he invaded Ukraine, he expected the Ukrainians to rise up and join him and say, "Yes, we want… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
I was 25 years old and pursuing my doctorate in economics when I was allowed to spend six months of postgraduate studies… — Vaclav Klaus Copy Share Image
The Iranian government has become pretty open about the drug problem in recent years. Opium use is a very traditional, cultural thing… — Hooman Majd Copy Share Image
Crucial to how we feel is being aware of how we are feeling in the moment. The sine qua non of that… — Paul Ekman Copy Share Image
But we must not forget the effort undertaken by the ruling elite in Russia to manipulate Western politicians, businessmen as well as… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
If western culture is shown to be rich, it is because, even before the Enlightenment, it has tried to 'dissolve' harmful simplifications… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“First of all, I’m not a ‘military type.’ Second, I never proclaimed to be a gentleman of any kind. I just like… — Sara Walter Ellwood Copy Share Image
Western traditions of education have emphasized knowledge analysis, description and debate. They all have a part to play, but today there is… — Edward de Bono Copy Share Image
Usually with this genre the first thing that happens is a good fight sequence to show that you're in good hands. So… — Ang Lee Copy Share Image
They [the Templars] had read Avicenna, and they were not ignorant, like the Europeans. How could you live alongside a tolerant, mystical,… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
My father was a schoolteacher, and so I had the advantage of both western educational instruction in the school, as well as… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
The great truths of human life do not spring new born to each new generation. They derive from long experience. They are… — Frederick Osborn Copy Share Image
I read Mailer's Ancient Evenings with great interest because I was interested in . . . the seven souls structure, which was… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
Whenever you play a song, you're basically playing with a lot of zeros and ones. These are Western compositional models that other… — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
Western media present events in Russia in a thoroughly negative light. Yes, we have problems, and these need to be covered. But… — Gennady Timchenko Copy Share Image
It is true that the aristocracies seem to have abused their monopoly of legal knowledge and at all events their exclusive possession… — Henry James Sumner Maine Copy Share Image
After the Moslem Africans lost control over Spain, they began to prey on the Africans further to the south. They destroyed the… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
I can't help but believe that in the future we will see in the United States and throughout the Western world an… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
All things in my novels are real for me. Some western critics said that Garcia Marquez's novels are magic realism. However, I… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
As I stand here today and tell you about these, I am heavy with an awareness of the fact that I am… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Western world doesn't really give enough credit to the importance in history of the Soviet invasion and the subsequent war in… — Michael Scheuer Copy Share Image
I suppose 'Gladiator' could be a Western - if you were writing your review in Athens, that is! To be honest, we… — Russell Crowe Copy Share Image
For a Westerner to trash Western culture is like criticizing our nitrogen/oxygen atmosphere on the grounds that it sometimes gets windy, and… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
People feel poorly because they are nourished by foods you wouldn't feed to your dog and cat. The rich western diet is… — John A. McDougall Copy Share Image
I watched Westerns from the time I was a girl. My dad was a big Western fan. I always loved Clint Eastwood… — Kimberly Elise Copy Share Image
Being frozen into the passive position of an object whose very existence depends on the eye of its beholder turn the educated… — Fatema Mernissi Copy Share Image
In a traditional Western there's always the bravado, and it's almost like they're winking that they know they're in a Western -… — Ti West Copy Share Image
The United States is considered a puritanical society by many Western nations. For example, they can't believe we hassle public servants like… — Bill O'Reilly Copy Share Image
![“No economic activity was more irrepressible [in the 14th century] than the investment and lending at interest of money; it was the basis for the rise of the Western capitalist economy and the building of private fortunes-and it was based on the sin of usury.” quote by Barbara Tuchman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5f4/barbara-tuchman-3945_activity_no-economic-activity-was-more-irrepressi_2007423.jpg)
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