But sometimes you can't figure everything out because you can't ever really understand other people. You can't understand why they do what they do. You just have to accept a little mystery, Ben. People are mysterious, the world is mysterious. You can...
People who for years had not looked for things in booked found new appetites for knowledge when they spoke to him. To someone who came in asking for the latest novel he might sell not only the novel but a biological treatise on the life of ants, an e...
I looked at the woman crying over the doll and felt something else. I was sick of people acting against their own interests. Mooing about how to refinance the slaughterhouse. Putting skylights in the killing pen and pretending the bolt in the brain w...
Please don't grow up to be one of those men who lie for the sport of it, and most men do. That's a fact. That's why the world is so messed up, Noah. That's why history books are full of so much heartache, and tragedy. Politicians, dictators, kings, p...
Torah is not just a book, not just a bunch of laws, and not just a history, but so much more. The Torah is a way ofd life to learn and live, and when studied, a spiritual way to understand life as well as providing instructions on getting closer to A...
And I despise your books, I despise wisdom and the blessings of this world. It is all worthless, fleeting, illusory, and deceptive, like a mirage. You may be proud, wise, and fine, but death will wipe you off the face of the earth as though you were ...
The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.
Every past is worth condemning.
These relics have a history then?' 'So much so that they are history.
It's history as it should have happened. It's history made better.
The magic of the street is the mingling of the errand and the epiphany.
History repeats itself but without a parity bit
The kitchen is the heart of every home, for the most part. It evokes memories of your family history.
History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.
In the end, human history is made up of all our decisions.
American history contains much matter for pride and congratulation, and much matter for regret and humiliation.
Human history is highly nonlinear and unpredictable.
The history of agriculture is the history of humans breeding seeds and animals to produce traits we want in our crops and livestock.
I know of no time in human history where ignorance was better than knowledge.
History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other.
An obituary should be an exercise in contemporary history, not a funeral oration.
