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“I am convinced that human history has not yet begun, that we find ourselves in the last period of the prehistoric.”

— Bartolomeo Vanzetti

There are two Americas: Washington and the rest of us.

— Eric Garcetti

About 15,000 years ago, humans colonised America, wiping out in the process about 75% of its large mammals. Numerous other species disappeared from Africa,…

— Yuval Noah Harari

Washington is a very easy city for you to forget where you came from and why you got there in the first place.

— Harry S Truman

When it comes to Washington, most people tend to think first of politics. But Washington is also a geographic and physical place. It is,…

— Katharine Graham

The cliche is that Washington is a transient town of people who blow in and out every four years with the new administrations. But…

— George Pelecanos

“In the penultimate stages of writing this book, the date of the great exodus from Africa may have shifted more than 10,000 years earlier…

— Adam Rutherford

“It’s important to keep in mind that when viewed against the full scale of our species’ existence, ten thousand years is but a brief…

— Christopher Ryan

“In short, the fossil record is perfectly compatible with the supposition that at some time between eight and six million years ago, at the…

— Elaine Morgan

“(Montana may never be considered the epicenter of modern life, but about 65 to 70 million years ago, during the late Cretaceous period, it…

— Patricia Schultz

“Described Washington as a community of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.”

— John F. Kennedy

Washington is not a city that takes great pride in being a healthy place, necessarily. Now, I have no data. That's just my own…

— Tom Rath