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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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 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...

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....

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.

Every body has role to play in the history of the world.

I sound contemptuous, but I am not. I am interested–intrigued even–by the way time erases real lives, leaving only vague imprints. Blood and spirit fade away so that only names and dates remain.

It’s important to honor your ancestors. Bringing in a piece of furniture or an object you’ve inherited from a loved one not only honors the person who has passed but also brings the warmth of...

And the great owners, who must lose their land in an upheaval, the great owners with access to history, with eyes to read history and to know the great fact: when property accumulates in too...

Your history is not your future.

History is boring, Janice concurred, undaunted as usual. It’s not like the Ride of the Valkyries. It’s what comes before history that isn’t boring.

For indeed, what is more dire than the evils which today afflict the world? What is more terrible for the discerning than the unfolding events? What is more pitiable and frightening for those who endure...

Aside from battles, the history of nations seemed to consist of nothing but powerless old poops like myself, heavily medicated and vaguely beloved in the long ago, coming to kiss the boots of young psychopaths.

You always want to be remembered as one of the greats. We know the history and tradition of this program.

When we died, no one would know, and that fraction of a moment that was so important to who we were would be gone.

The gospel is not mere forgiveness or grace, empty of content, but always refers to Jesus. So the gospel is good news about a human person who is God in our history, our world and...

Let justice be done tho the heavens fall.

Many had suspected that the political disasters of the past few years had a hidden cause. The bloodiness of the French mob rule was something unnatural, with a pitiless and inhuman progression that had never...

Find a unique path and make a successful journey over there! This is the way to have a unique place in the history!

History is an amazing presence–it is the place where vanished time gathers. While we are in the flow of time, it is difficult to glean its significance, and it is only in looking back that...

Dio quanto è bella” pensò l’uomo avvicinandosi alla giovane che aveva lasciato due mesi prima. Vedere quegli occhi, quei lunghi capelli corvini legati in una treccia come ricordava di averli visti quella prima sera insieme...

A historian is a risk-terrified prophet.

If you study a historical episode and feel good about it, it probably means that you haven’t had it explained very well. Historical conflict is usually the struggle of different conceptions of what is good.

Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and torturous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness, with which more than half the Bible is filled, it would be more consistent that we called it...

Wilier races had interbred with human race during immemorial.Therefore no need to look for them on anywhere but in ourselves.

Not everyone believed in marriage then. To marry was to say you believed in the future and in the past, too – that history and tradition and hope could stay knit together to hold you...

As history has also shown, especially in the twentieth century, one of the first things an ideologue will do after achieving absolute power is kill.

Washington once advised his adopted grandson that where there is no occasion for expressing an opinion, it is best to be silent. For there is nothing more certain than that it is at all times...

The philosopher cannot seriously put to himself questions that his civilization has not lived.

Indeed it is generally the case that men are readier to call rogues clever than simpletons honest, and are ashamed of being the second as they are proud of being the first.

If you put forth a small amount of effort, you just might find your next best friend for life is of a different race than your own.

When considering a candidate for office, almost right up until they enter the polling booth and sometimes even in the booth itself, most voters rely more on what they see and hear themselves in real...

Life & Deathenergy & Peaceif I stoped todayit was funEven the terrible pains that have burn me & scarred my soul it was worth it for having been allowed to walked where I’ve walked. Which...

The evolution of life, and the evolutionary origin of mankind, are scientifically established as firmly and completely as any historical event not witnessed by human observers. Any concession to anti-evolutionists, suggesting that there are scientific...