#the history of

Every society in the history of man has upheld the institution of marriage as a bond between a man and a woman. Why? Because society is based on one thing: that society is based on the future of the society. And that's what? Children. Monogamous relationships. ↗

— Rick Santorum

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I am convinced that the stratigraphic method will in the future enable archaeology to throw far more light on the history of American culture than it has done in the past. ↗

— Edward Sapir

#american #american culture #archaeology #convinced #culture

The business, task or object of the scientific study of languages will if possible be 1) to trace the history of all known languages. Naturally this is possible only to a very limited extent and for very few languages. ↗

— Ferdinand de Saussure

#extent #few #history #known #languages

The greatest country in the history of the world being attacked. So all of this doesn't mean very much today. ↗

— Bud Selig

#being #country #greatest #greatest country #history

And certainly the history of public sculpture has been disastrous but that doesn't mean it ought not to continue and the only way it even has a chance to continue is if the work gets out into the public. ↗

— Richard Serra

#certainly #chance #continue #disastrous #even

Movie SF is, by definition, dumbed down - there have only been three or four SF movies in the history of film that aspire to the complexity of literary SF. ↗

— Dan Simmons

#been #complexity #definition #down #film

It is needless to say how great has been the influence of the doctrine of Evolution, or rather perhaps of the method of investigation to which it has given birth, upon the study of history, especially the history of institutions. ↗

— Goldwin Smith

#birth #doctrine #especially #evolution #given

The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality. ↗

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#history #long #long struggle #past #struggle

We found nothing grand in the history of the Jews nor in the morals inculcated in the Pentateuch. I know of no other books that so fully teach the subjection and degradation of woman. ↗

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#degradation #found #fully #grand #history

We look to the history of the time of framing and to the intervening history of interpretation. But the ultimate question must be, what do the words of the text mean in our time. ↗

— William J. Brennan, Jr.

#history #interpretation #intervening #look #mean