Personally, my interests are ancient history and ancient civilizations. In my own life, I'd like to go to places like Easter Island.
What I said to my family is, 'Our history is our own. Let people write what they want, we know who we are.'
If you have autism in the family history, you still vaccinate. Delay it a bit, space them out.
I don't seem to be able to learn from experience or anything useful. History doesn't help me. Precedents don't inform my experience.
No student of Chinese history can say that the Chinese are incapable of religious experience, even when judged by the standards of medieval Europe or pious India.
I went to jail 44 times. I've been beaten and left for dead on the side of the road fighting for freedom... Yet Rosa Parks is better known in history than Ralph David Abernathy. Why is that?
Value your freedom or you will lose it, teaches history. 'Don't bother us with politics', respond those who don't want to learn.
For all of higher civilization's recorded history, becoming a man was defined overwhelmingly as taking responsibility for a family.
The thing that interests me most about family history is the gap between the things we think we know about our families and the realities.
Latin life is rich with warmth, family values and history. I want to bring that beauty into American homes.
All through history, there have always been movements where business was not just about the accumulation of proceeds but also for the public good.
History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.
The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting.
There was a long history of speculation that in quantum gravity, unlike Einstein's classical theory, it might be possible for the topology of spacetime to change.
The history of American patriotism is figuring out ways that we can work together to move forward and knit together the common government.
Yet, history has shown that if material force can defeat some ideologies it can no longer obliterate a civilization without destabilizing the whole planet.
Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.
I think that this is the first war in history that on the morrow the victors sued for peace and the vanquished called for unconditional surrender.
What is the thread of western civilization that distinguished its course in history? It has to do with the preoccupation of western man with his outward command and his sense of superiority.
You cannot take one set of issues from one country and apply it to another. They are all different, in terms of history, and the religious compositions of the populations involved.
I feel like I'm part of history being made. I leave Apple board meetings thinking, 'I've got to do a better job.'
