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.

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

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.

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.

This nation was founded by many men of many nations and backgrounds. It was founded on the principle that all men are created equal, and that the rights of every man are diminished when the...

I don’t care what is written,” Meyer Landsman says. “I don’t care what supposedly got promised to some sandal-wearing idiot whose claim to fame is that he was ready to cut his own son’s throat...

Later on in life, you expect a bit of rest, don’t you? You think you deserve it. I did, anyway. But then you begin to understand that the reward of merit is not life’s business.

History can teach us so much, and yet we seem to learns so little.

The French revolution, he concluded, had not produced any new principles of truths, merely a mass of examples of how things could go wrong.

In the long run, even a tyrannical government only has the power that the people confer on it and coming to understand history is the beginning of making things right.

We’re definitely into the history. Columbia’s come a long way, and we want to see it go further.

There are three kind of history. The first is what really happened and that is forever lost. The second is what most people thought happened, and we can recover that with assiduous effort. The third...

I wrote this book because I had formed a strong impression that the people currently living were paying insufficient attention to the dead.

(The trip) was a total success. We were happy to host them and be a part of the history of the ship.

By journey’s end the brides were much better acquainted with their grooms and more or less pleased with the matches. Sybil Bingham wrote in her diary, thanking God for answering her prayer for filling “the...

With the plundered people transferring their energies into relaxed and receptive thoughts, degradation and lust for power produced art.

The lack of a sense of history is the damnation of the modern world.

He used to say that he never felt the hardness of the human struggle or the sadness of history as he felt it among those ruins. He used to say, too, that it made one...

History, in the end, is only another kind of story, and stories are different from the truth. The truth is messy and chaotic and all over the place. Often it just doesn’t make sense. Stories...

Well, in war, you can only be killed once. But in politics, many times.

Prophet Muhammad rises to start his mission for Allah.When wrapped in profound meditation and sad, he felt himself called by a voices from heaven to arise “O you (Muhammad) enveloped (in garments)! arise and warn!...

Aku kira dan bagiku itulah kesadaran sejarah. Sadar akan hidup dan kesia-siaan nilai.

History affects our future but it doesn’t determine it.

Bagaimanapun jalannya, sekali-kali jangan lelah untuk berusaha gigih membela semua yang baik.

Maybe your college professor taught that the legacy of colonialism explains Third World poverty. That’s nonsense as well. Canada was a colony. So were Australia, New Zealand and Hong Kong. In fact, the richest country...

I’m interested in the way in which the past affects the present and I think that if we understand a good deal more about history, we automatically understand a great more about contemporary life.

An artist can respect the backfield of fact before which every human being stands and choose not to address those facts.

The Stonewall riot may have been the start of a civil rights movement, but it was not the beginning of our history.

the appearance” of design is not exactly evidence against design. According to Dawkins, though, if it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it is almost certainly something else.

It comes from history. It comes from the record of the Inquisition, persecuting heretics and torturing Jews and all that sort of stuff; and it comes from the other side, too, from the Protestants burning...

We make, see, and love films, not digitals. To convert all of our movies, home videos, theaters, photographs and television to digital would be like telling a painter to throw away his brushes and canvas...

Tame him? You can’t tame a Tower rat–they’re flea-bitten and vicious.””So are most men!” The girl smiled and stretched her cramped limbs. “Shall I tame one of them instead? They too make diverting pets, you...

My mother? My own mother told my lady governess that if the baby and I were in danger then they should save the baby.