“Failure is impossible.”
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“You have to look at the history of the Middle East in particular. It has been one of failure and frustration, of feudalism and tribalism.”
“Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history therefore we must be saved by faith.”
“Religion is part of the human make-up. It's also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at literature, the texts, our first attempt at cosmology, making sense of where we are in the universe, our first attempt at health care, believing in faith healing, our first attempt at philosophy.”
“May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, considering the history of the human race so far, may it not be that 'faith' is even more difficult for Him than it is for us?”
“To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning.”
“Skepticism has never founded empires, established principals, or changed the world's heart. The great doers in history have always been people of faith.”
“Religious belief, like history itself, is a story that is always unfolding, always subject to inquiry and ripe for questioning. For without doubt there is no faith.”
“I have written too much history to have faith in it and if anyone thinks I'm wrong, I am inclined to agree with him.”
“Faith is a kind of winged intellect. The great workmen of history have been men who believed like giants.”
“It's very strange that most people don't care if their knowledge of their family history only goes back three generations.”
“If you have autism in the family history, you still vaccinate. Delay it a bit, space them out.”
“My sense of the family history is somewhat sketchy, because my mother kept a great deal to herself.”
“For all of higher civilization's recorded history, becoming a man was defined overwhelmingly as taking responsibility for a family.”
“We need a better way to talk about eating animals, a way that doesn't ignore or even just shruggingly accept things like habits, cravings, family and history but rather incorporates them into the conversation. The more they are allowed in, the more able we will be to follow our best instincts.”
“Among famous traitors of history one might mention the weather.”
“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.”
“A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - a place where history comes to life.”
“The Russians feared Ike. They didn't fear me.”
“Isn't history ultimately the result of our fear of boredom?”
“Uncertainty and fear and ignorance about immigrants, about people who are different, has a history as old as our Nation.”
“President Obama is the most successful food stamp president in American history. I would like to be the most successful paycheck president in American history.”
“I love places that have an incredible history. I love the Italian way of life. I love the food. I love the people. I love the attitudes of Italians.”