Quotes of: Study-history Keyword

When I went to college, my goal was to be a college history teacher. I majored in history.

George J. Mitchell

I'm covering the worst president in American history.

Helen Thomas

Philosophy of science without history of science is empty; history of science without philosophy of science is blind.

Imre Lakatos

History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.

Karl Marx

The so-called lessons of history are for the most part the rationalizations of the victors. History is written by the survivors.

Max Lerner

I read all the time... I read a lot of history books.

Mickey Spillane

There is no 20-year period in American history when stocks lost money.

P. J. O'Rourke

Political vitriol is a familiar enough characteristic of American history.

Robert Dallek

If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

Warren Buffett

The world has entered an era of the most profound and challenging change in human history.

Stephen Covey

Murray: Derek, what are you trying to prove?

American History X

We are a day away from making history, and a history towards the breaking of tommorrow.

Anthony Liccione

Some people get rich studying artificial intelligence. I make money studying natural stupidity.

Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics

My ambition is not to leave behind me a pile of money for my heirs to quarrel about, but to find out what there is of interest in this world before I cross the border and begin to explore the other world.

Brown Studies, or Camp Fires and Morals

Study after study confirms that even when you control for variables like profession, education, hours worked, age, marital status, and children, men still are compensated substantially more - even in professions, like nursing, dominated by women. No ...

Dee Dee Myers

I loved statistics from a young age. And I studied very much in Sweden. I used to be in the upper quarter of all courses I attended. But in St. John's, I was in the lower quarter. And the fact was that Indian students studied harder than we did in Sw...

Hans Rosling

The more severely he struggles to hold on to the primal face-to-face relation with God, the more tenuous this becomes, until in the end the relation to God Himself threatens to become a relation to Nothingness.

Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy

It is an emotional and an enchanted place. If the study of the conscious mind highlights the importance of reason and analysis, study of the unconscious mind highlights the importance of passions and perception.

The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement

She wondered how Dr. Watson - a clever man in his own right - had lasted so many years without bashing his roommate over the head out of sheer frustration.

A Study in Darkness

...isn't it possible that advertising as a whole is a fantastic fraud, presenting an image of America taken seriously by no one, least of all the advertising men who create it?

The Lonely Crowd: A Study of the Changing American Character

Melancholy suicide. —This is connected with a general state of extreme depression and exaggerated sadness, causing the patient no longer to realize sanely the bonds which connect him with people and things about him. Pleasures no longer attract;

On Suicide: A Study in Sociology