We have it in our power to begin the world over again.

Fools who don’t respect the past are doomed to repeat it.

There is no better teacher than history in determining the future… There are answers worth billions of dollars in 30$ history book.

I’m an unabashed elitist. Everyone needs a good editor, and there is peril in worshiping amateurism and the unedited in science, art, and journalism.

History does not usually make real sense until long afterward.

He who does not know his past cannot make the best of his present and future, for it is from the past that we learn.

History will judge societies and governments — and their institutions — not by how big they are or how well they serve the rich and the powerful, but by how effectively they respond to the...

History is the guess of old men, sometimes they get it wrong.

History is what we write, not what we remember. Why should we tarnish the memory of our planet by enshrining our less then noble deeds?

The death knell for any enterprise is to glorify the past — no matter how good it was.

For the first time in history we can track the evolution of a pandemic in real time. Influenza viruses are notorious for their rapid mutation and unpredictable behavior.

The brave soldiers die. The cowards survive and write the history.

The biggest enemy of truth is known as facts in our society.

The worst pandemic in modern history was the Spanish flu of 1918, which killed tens of millions of people. Today, with how interconnected the world is, it would spread faster.

The Noblest form of Affection

I believe the momentum that is now building up will give us a chance to change the course of history and head off a pandemic caused by the H5N1 virus.

Patriarchy, reformed or unreformed, is patriarchy still: its worst abuses purged or foresworn, it might actually be more stable and secure than before.

Here we introduce the nation’s first great communications monopolist, whose reign provides history’s first lesson in the power and peril of concentrated control over the flow of information. Western Union’s man was one Rutherford B....

The American flag doesn’t give her glory on a peaceful, calm day. It’s when the winds pick up and become boisterous, do we see her strength. When she unfolds her hand, and shows her frayed...

A lie near to truth is always difficult to catch.

I’m so disappointed that I live in the era where technology rule the world and pride is more important than kindness.

Read the stories of the past to write your story for the future.

He knows different now. It’s the living that chase the dead. The long bones and skulls are tumbled from their shrouds, and words like stones thrust into their rattling mouths: we edit their writings, we...

Manuscript editions didn’t immediately die out with the printing explosion that burst across Europe in the 1460s and 1470s. Manuscripts continued to be produced into the 16th century, many decades after presses had spread to...

Our ability to look back on the past, our need or desire to make sense of it, is both a blessing and a curse; and our inability to see into the future with any degree...

fault.” But it is undeniably our inheritance.

Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.

I grew up in Europe, where the history comes from.

Perbedaan warna kulit yang anda anut membangkitkan perasaan jijik orang Asia! Sampai-sampai ke dalam film anda memperlihatkan kerendahan dari bansa kulit berwarna!

Dari dua putraku dan tiga putriku dari Fatmawati, semuanya, kecuali Guntur, tinggal di Istana Merdeka bersamaku. Guntur tidak sedekat sebagaimana seharusnya. Dia anak ibunya. Aku tidak dapat menyalahkan dia. Karena aku juga begitu. Dia kuliah...

Kita tidak akan menjadi negara untuk satu orang atau satu golongan tetapi semua buat satu, satu buat semua, semua buat satu.

Sudah merupakan suratan nasib Sukarno, untuk menyusun pergerakan yang membuat dia masuk penjara, lalu dibuang, tapi kemudian dia akan membebaskan kita semua. Sukarno bukan lagi milik orangtuanya. Karno sudah menjadi milik rakyat Indonesia. Kami harus...

Seseorang yang menjadi gurumu harus dihormati, bahkan lebih daripada orang tuamu sendiri.

Faithfulness to the truth of history involves far more than research, however patient and scrupulous, into special facts. The narrator must seek to imbue himself with the life and spirit of the time.

There are certain books in the history of the world that should never have been written. This book makes all those look like masterpieces.

…early medieval Ireland sounds like a somewhat crazed Wisconsin, in which every dairy farm is an armed camp at perpetual war with its neighbors, and every farmer claims he is a king.

History written in pencil is easily erased, but crayon is forever.

Write about what you know,” isn’t limited to what you have personally experienced. Vicarious experience is also a great part of what you know. Read a lot of history and it becomes part of your...

A little while, their hunger unfulfilled,The mothlike worlds flit ’round the guttering sun.(“Ephemera”)

There is no question that the Republicans mounted an attack on John Murtha. They are trying to rewrite history.

Before the battle they had been discussing whether there might be life after death, and Windham and Rochester had made a pact that if there was, the first to die would come back and tell...

The power of a bold idea uttered publicly in defiance of dominant opinion cannot be easily measured. Those special people who speak out in such a way as to shake up not only the self-assurance...

Tuhan ingin menyampaikan risalah kepada manusia. Untuk itu Tuhan mengirim Rasul-rasul dan Nabi Muhammad adalah salah satu dari Rasul-rasul itu. Risalah yang ingin disampaikan Tuhan ialah norma-norma akhlak dan syariat.

It was probably the greatest singular human endeavor, certainly in modern times, maybe in the history of all mankind.

What do we do if we come across trouble, sir?’ Cahill asked, slapping at a fly. ‘As much as I enjoy giving the rebel turds a walloping, it should be down to the Militia to...

Change the world so that nothing else is changed.

He lied all the time even when there was no need to lie […] He needed a _history_, a sense of self. [Burnside on his father, p. 22]

It’s interesting to see that people had so much clutter even thousands of years ago. The only way to get rid of it all was to bury it, and then some archaeologist went and dug...

It is, however, a most astonishing but incontestable fact, that the history of the evolution of man as yet constitutes no part of general education. Indeed, our so-called ‘educated classes’ are to this day in...

The compilation of good and bad time with the traces of years make a period. Every man is the writer of his own history, make this worth reading for the generation to come.