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153 Histories quotes by 143 unique authors

The social disease of political correctness has entered daily life, inverting good to bad and attempting to rewrite proud histories as an imposition of white… — Robert Agostinelli
Deconstructing the concept of race not only conflicts with people's tendency to classify and build family histories according to common descent but also ignores the… — J. Philippe Rushton
Your closest relationships are often the ones that have the most effect on you, but they are frequently the ones most difficult to change. These… — Richard Moss
Histories are as perfect as the Historian is wise, and is gifted with an eye and a soul. — Thomas Carlyle
The Bible is not primarily a written or printed text to be scrutinized in private, in a scholar's study or a contemplative cell. It is… — Thomas Merton
In Globetrotter, David Albahari explores the consciousness of emigres from the former Yugoslavia, Croatia and Serbia, showing that while abroad, many of us are even… — Josip Novakovich
Beyond all sciences, philosophies, theologies, and histories, a child's relentless inquiry is truly all it takes to remind us that we don't know as much… — Criss Jami
There are two histories : official history, lying, and then secret history, where you find the real causes of events. — Honore de Balzac
Je ne crois que les histoires dont les te moins se feraient e gorger. I only believe in histories told by witnesses who would have… — Blaise Pascal
What is all our histories, but God showing himself, shaking and trampling on everything that he has not planted. — Oliver Cromwell
There must be possible a fiction which, leaving sociology and case histories to the scientists, can arrive at the truth about the human condition, here… — Ralph Ellison
Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravages of time as are individuals. But in and through all… — Soren Kierkegaard
The international community lies at the center of the Obama foreign policy. Unfortunately, it is a fiction. There is no such thing. Different countries have… — Charles Krauthammer
I'm trying to deal with ideas about histories, fame, hearsay, and how public identities are constructed. — Barbara Kruger
Hugh Everett's work has been described by many people in terms of many worlds, the idea being that every one of the various alternative histories,… — Murray Gell-Mann
If we look at the way the universe behaves, quantum mechanics gives us fundamental, unavoidable indeterminacy, so that alternative histories of the universe can be… — Murray Gell-Mann
Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends. — Alexander Pope
There is no history of mankind, there are only many histories of all kinds of aspects of human life. And one of these is the… — Karl Popper
Companies have long gathered data to break down their customer base into specific segments. Now political parties have become adept at micro-targeting, too, using data… — James Surowiecki
In other countries they have histories with revolutions and class movements. In America, people don't like to think of themselves like being in a lower… — Matt Taibbi
As befits Silicon Valley, 'big data' is mostly big hype, but there is one possibility with genuine potential: that it might one day bring loans… — Evgeny Morozov
We, unaccustomed to courage exiles from delight live coiled in shells of loneliness until love leaves its high holy temple and comes into our sight… — Maya Angelou
If you want to become a man of letters and perhaps write some Histories one day, you must also lie and invent tales, otherwise your… — Umberto Eco
We die containing a richness of lovers and tribes, tastes we have swallowed, bodies we have plunged into and swum up as if rivers of… — Michael Ondaatje
If we could read the past histories of all our enemies we would disregard all hostility for them. — Napoleon Bonaparte

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