The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.
And yet, you do not throw out some of the great minds of the Church - and people in Church history - and say they have no credibility because they committed a sin or made a mistake.
Ideologists of all kinds find a strange sort of comfort in the madness of the crowd; it confirms them in their suspicion that history, far from being made by the great mass of individuals - as Marx averred - is rather unmade by a single massive indiv...
There is little for the great part of the history of the world except the bitter tears of pity and the hot tears of wrath.
Cooking and gardening involve so many disciplines: math, chemistry, reading, history.
When I was a graduate student, the leading spirits at Harvard were interested in the history of ideas.
If the American government can't stand behind the dollar, the world's benchmark currency, then the global financial system will very likely enter a new era in which there is much less trade and much less economic growth. It would be, by most accounts...
We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rul...
In the Federal Government, electronic records are as indispensable as their paper counterparts for documenting citizens' rights, the actions for which officials are accountable, and the nation's history.
History has shown that Big Government expands quickest in the immediate aftermath of a crisis - real or manufactured.
I didn't do improv in college, I never performed, I didn't do theater either. I was in student government, I was a history major.
The lesson of history is that you do not get a sustained economic recovery as long as the financial system is in crisis.
The Oceanic White Tip is considered one of the most dangerous sharks in the sea along with the Great White and Tiger. It is responsible for some of the most famous episodes of man-eating in history, such as when the U.S.S. Indianapolis sank in 1945.
How many writers in history have ever been as famous as Stephen King? He casts an awfully long shadow.
Barack Obama is the most famous living person in the history of the world.
The stones themselves are thick with history, and those cats that dash through the alleyways must surely be the ghosts of the famous dead in feline disguise.
Among famous traitors of history one might mention the weather.
Vidal Sassoon was the most famous hairstylist in the history of the world.
The most common form of giantism is a condition called acromegaly, and acromegaly is caused by a benign tumor on your pituitary gland that causes an overproduction of human growth hormone. And throughout history, many of the most famous giants have a...
Marx and Engels are arguably history's most famous couple. Such was the closeness of their collaboration that it is not always easy to recall which works bore both names, which just that of Marx, and which just Engels.
If you hack the Vatican server, have you tampered in God's domain?
