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Nebraska was home to indigenous peoples for centuries. It became a state in 1867, and has produced an important literary figure, Willa Cather, as…

— Stephen Kinzer

The Islamic world doesn't stop in the Arab world or Persia. There is the whole Turkic world, the Central Asian world, South Asian world,…

— Seyyed Hossein Nasr

[The] events by which the fate of nations is not materially changed, leave a faint impression on the page of history, and the patience…

— Edward Gibbon

What has history said of eminence without honor, wealth without wisdom, power and possessions without principle? The answer is reiterated in the overthrow of…

— Orson F. Whitney

In the year 1090, there was founded in Persia the religious and military order of the Assassins, whose history is one of cruelty, barbarity,…

— Harry J. Anslinger

Adam Smith actually took all his best ideas and lines from sources from medieval Persia. But one thing he doesn't take is the underlying…

— David Graeber

I have a long view of history - my orientation is archaeological because I'm always thinking in terms of ancient Greece and Rome, ancient…

— Camille Paglia

“Elam is one of the ancient names of Iran, just like Persia. The passage tells us that in the last days, God will scatter…

— Joel C. Rosenberg

To see the Persia of poets and painters, hiding in plain sight behind the much-maligned Iran of our newspaper headlines, would be my fondest…

— Pico Iyer

I sometimes think that the most plaintive ditty has brought a fuller joy and of longer duration to its composer that the conquest of…

— Walter Savage Landor

The East caused all the problems and the West gets all the blame.

— Steve Fowler

“What strange and unexpected event has not occurred in our time? The life we have lived is no ordinary human one, but we were born to…

— Aeschines