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The history of the Jews has been written overwhelmingly by scholars of texts - understandably given the formative nature of the Bible and the Talmud. Seeing Jewish history through artifacts, architecture and images is still a young but spectacularly ...

Simon Schama

History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird.

Joseph Conrad

En democracia la política es un teatro y nadie puede actuar en un teatro sin fingir.

The Anatomy of a Moment: Thirty-Five Minutes in History and Imagination

The power of gradually losing all feeling of strangeness or astonishment, and finally being pleased at anything, is called the historical sense or historical culture.

On the Advantage and Disadvantage of History for Life

Why is it that married people always say "Come in" when everything they do says "Get out"? They talk about their miseries and then ask you why you're unmarried.

The History Man

It might seem that the empirical philosopher is the slave of his material, but that the pure mathematician, like the musician, is a free creator of his world of ordered beauty.

A History of Western Philosophy

[O]ther thinkers have philosophised since the time of Plato, but that does not destroy the interest and beauty of his philosophy

A History of Philosophy 1: Greece and Rome

All these are readers, and their gestures, their craft, the pleasure, the responsibility and the power they derive from reading, are common with mine. I am not alone.

A History of Reading

attraction, that's the farthest thing from an idea. That's an urge, an impulse, a force. It's subconscious, physical. You can't make everything cerebral.

The History of Us

In a democracy, someone who fails to get elected to office can always console himself with the thought that there was something not quite fair about it.

The History of the Peloponnesian War

Right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.

The History of the Peloponnesian War

Difficulty of subsistence made the invaders reduce the numbers of the army to a point at which it might live on the country during the prosecution of the war.

The History of the Peloponnesian War

Fears don't exist in isolation. They tend to rise and fall depending on what people think they can do about them.

The Icarus Syndrome: A History of American Hubris

The people of the United States will do anything for Latin America, except read about it.

Journalism's Roving Eye: A History of American Foreign Reporting

Most people today couldn't tell a bombardier from a brigadier" - said during a lecture in aid of the Army Benevolent Fund in 2009

Soldiers: A History Of Men In Battle

Open scatter is more fundamental than coupled sharing; it is the stuff from which, on splendid occasions, dialogue may arise.

Speaking into the Air: A History of the Idea of Communication

Amy wondered if Bonaparte could declare war on Miss Gwen alone without breaking his peace with England

The Secret History of the Pink Carnation

LIPID (Last Idiot Person I Dated) syndrome: a largely undiagnosed but pervasive disease that afflicts single women.

The Secret History of the Pink Carnation

People know what they do; frequently they know why they do what they do; but what they don't know is what what they do does.

Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason

In the course of time, Michael Strogoff reached a high station in the Empire. But it is not the history of his success, but the history of his trials, which deserves to be related.

Michael Strogoff

['non-white' gay men] are run over at the intersection of racism and homophobia

The Making of a Gay Asian Community: An Oral History of Pre-AIDS Los Angeles