Quotes of: World-history Keyword

When Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species in 1859, he exposed the world to a momentous discovery . For the first time in history, human beings were seen not as creatures of divine origin, but instead, as a product of nature, an animal li...

Beyond Cosmic Dice: Moral Life in a Random World

If evolutionism were to be rejected, the whole structure upon which the modern world is based would collapse and one would have to accept the incredible wisdom of the Creator in the creation of the multiplicity of life forms which we see on the surfa...

A Young Muslim's Guide to the Modern World

The facts are always frightening, and in all of us fear of the facts is constantly at work, constantly being fuelled; but this morbid fear must not lead us to conceal the facts and so to falsify the whole of human history -- which is of course part o...

Gathering Evidence & My Prizes: A Memoir

The absence of romance in my history will, I fear, detract somewhat from its interest, but if it is judged worthy by those inquirers who desire an exact knowledge of the past as an aid to the understanding of the future, which in the course of human ...

The History of the Peloponnesian War

Over and over again in the study of the history of life it appears that what can happen does happen. There is little suggestion that what occurs must occur, that it was fated or that it follows some fixed plan, except simply as the expansion of life ...

The Meaning of Evolution: A Study of the History of Life and of Its Significance for Man, Revised Edition

Never before in history had societies thought that such a set of high expectations about marriage was either realistic or desirable. Although many Europeans and Americans found tremendous joy in building their relationships around these values, the a...

Marriage, a History: How Love Conquered Marriage

Physicians, patients, and ethicists must also understand that acknowledging abuse and encouraging African Americans to participate in research are compatible goals. History and today's deplorable African American health profile tell us clearly that b...

Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present

But history, real solemn history, I cannot be interested in. Can you?" "Yes, I am fond of history." "I wish I were too. I read it a little as a duty, but it tells me nothing that does not either vex or weary me. The quarrels of popes and kings, with ...

Northanger Abbey

How are you going to spend your day today? The key word being spend. Our time is one of the most precious gifts in our lives. Once today is over, that's it. Think about how you really want to spend your day. Tomorrow, today will be history. It's your...

The Waves of Life Quotes Companion Journal

Less than a decade after the Great Exhibition, iron as a structural material was finished—which makes it slightly odd that the most iconic structure of the entire century, about to rise over Paris, was made of that doomed material. I refer of cours...

At Home: A Short History of Private Life

Another thing is, people lose perspective. It is a cultural trait in America to think in terms of very short time periods. My advice is: learn history. Take responsibility for history. Recognise that sometimes things take a long time to change. If yo...

Winona LaDuke

If I am alive this is my book, and my father lives now in the afterlife that is a book, a thing not vague or virtual but something you can hold and feel and smell because to my mind heaven like life must be a thing sensual and real. And my book will ...

History of the Rain

In the humanist world following Erasmus, man is at the centre of the universe. Man becomes largely responsible for his own destiny, behaviour and future. This is the new current of thought which finds its manifestation in the writing of the 1590s and...

The Routledge History of Literature in English: Britain and Ireland

Stop being so greedy, and so selfish. Realize that there is more to the world than your big houses and fancy stores. People are starving and you worry about oil for your cars. Babies are dying of thirst and you search the fashion pages for the latest...

The Secret History of the American Empire: Economic Hit Men, Jackals & the Truth about Global Corruption

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.

Collected Essays

In the midst of happiness or despair in sorrow or in joy in pleasure or in pain: Do what is right and you will be at peace.

The Catastrophic History of You and Me

You did love me," I whispered. "Just not the same way I loved you.

The Catastrophic History of You and Me

News flash, Bozo. Don't ever tell a girl to relax. It only makes us madder.

The Catastrophic History of You and Me

My native tense is future conditional, a low simmer of unspecified worry being the usual condition.

Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation

She will not be simple and sweet. She will not be what people tell her she should be.

The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks

History knows no scruples and no hesitation. Inert and unnering flows towards her goal. History knows herway. She makes no mistakes.

Darkness at Noon