"How real is history? Is it just an……" — Thomas Cahill
"How real is history? Is it just an enormous soup so full of disparate ingredients that it is uncharacterizable?"
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12 Quotes by Thomas Cahill
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(The festival) was awfully impersonal and abstract and there was something really gloomy about it, ... That's when I first…
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The Irish innovation was to make all confession a completely private affair between penitent and priest - and to make…
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In becoming an Irishman, Patrick wedded his world to theirs, his faith to their life…Patrick found a way of swimming…
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The Irish believed that gods, druids, poets, and others in touch with the magical world could be literal shape-shifters
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We can hardly get up in the morning or cross the street without being Jewish. We dream Jewish dreams and…
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The Jews started it all-and by 'it' I mean so many of the things we care about, the underlying values…
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One of my rigid goals is to keep each book under 300 pages because I think so much nonfiction is…
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We normally think of history as one catastrophe after another, war followed by war, outrage by outrage - almost as…
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Is is seldom possible to say of the medievals that they *always* did one thing and *never* another; they were…
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If there are no books. There is no civilization.
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Wherever they went the Irish brought with them their books, many unseen in Europe for centuries and tied to their…
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Bringing together disparate personalities to form a team is like a jigsaw puzzle. You have to ask yourself: what is…
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Religion has endured since the dawn of human consciousness precisely because it encompasses so much of being human. No idea…
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Some Western politicians are already threatening us with not just sanctions, but also the prospect of increasingly serious problems on…
— Vladimir Putin
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I'm always looking for those places where you can slam really disparate people up against one another, and they have…
— Jenji Kohan
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I want to see that our older people still feel useful, and our younger people feel engaged in our wider…
— Julia Neuberger, Baroness Neuberger
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We do literature a real disservice if we reduce it to knowledge or to use, to a problem to be…
— Marjorie Garber
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If you pay attention to those aspects of God that demonstrate love, truth, beauty, intelligence, order, and spiritual evolution, those…
— Deepak Chopra
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I don't think you really can send an exact message, because any two viewers are so disparate, in terms of…
— Martin Mull
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When a poet's mind is perfectly equipped for its work, it is constantly amalgamating disparate experience ?in the mind of…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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The history of interactions among disparate peoples is what shaped the modern world through conquest, epidemics and genocide. Those collisions…
— Jared Diamond
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Human paleontology shares a peculiar trait with such disparate subjects as theology and extraterrestrial biology: it contains more practitioners than…
— David Pilbeam
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The earliest religious texts in the West ascribe to humankind both a prehistory and a destiny among the gods. M.…
— Terryl L. Givens
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