precious laughing time is wasted, because I have to put up with Satan’s stupid minions who smile without attempting to anger somebody else – leave us alone already.

God was never created the economy.Men found it after banished from Eden.

Work, love, courage and hope,Make me good and help me cope!

No Big Power in all history ever thought of itself as an aggressor. That is still true today.

The present is the key to the past.

Just this past summer, I took online courses in introductory logic and law through civilization. Often the weight of history, with its facts heaped upon facts requiring complex chains of inference to sort through –...

Over the last six years, we have experienced the largest drop in price/earnings ratios in the history of the U.S. stock market, going back to 1871. 2006 has the potential to be a great year...

I know I’m biased because I’m his agent, but Ted Washington is probably the best nose tackle in the history of football. He’ll play hard every down. This is probably his last contract, but I...

Ideals are peaceful, history is violent.

We know of no spectacle more ridiculous—or more contemptible—than that of the religious reactionaries who dare to re-write the history of our republic. Or who try to do so. Is it possible that, in their...

It is of inestimable importance that the classical and biblical traditions linked slavery with original sin, punishment , the later abolition of slavery became tied with personal and collective freedom, with the redemption from sin,...

The mind is a powerful thing. It can take you through walls.

The alchemists of past centuries tried hard to make the elixir of life: … Those efforts were in vain; it is not in our power to obtain the experiences and the views of the future...

Moreover, it is not just that the early documents are silent about so much of Jesus that came to be recorded in the gospels, but that they view him in a substantially different way —...

We have to remember, sometimes the most important history is the history we’re making today.

What is realised in my history is not the past definitive of what it was, since it is no more, or even the present perfect of what has been in what I am, but the...

History has rewritten itself so many times I’m not really sure how it was to begin with — it’s a bit like trying to guess the original color of a wall when it’s been repainted...

‎W. H. Auden once suggested that to understand your own country you need to have lived in at least two others. One can say something similar for periods of time: to understand your own century...

Next time!” In what calendar are kept the records of those next times which never come?

Now when we get to Watkins Glen, that’s going to be the slowest lap in history. I’m going to tell the team not to expect me to set a flyer on that first one.

[It] has been said that the difference between Greek and Israelite religion was that the Greeks worshiped the ‘holiness of beauty’ whereas the Jews worshiped ‘the beauty of holiness.

Seandainya Amerika dapat mengerti perasaan kami dan ketidaknyaman kami, dia akan menyadari bahwa lautan dollar takkan dapat merebut hati kami.

Setiap kemajuan menimbulkan lebih banyak sakit kepala.

Dengan setiap rambut di tubuhku, aku hanya memikirkan tanah airku. Dan tidak ada perlunya bagiku melepaskan beban dari dalam hatiku kepada setiap pemuda yang datang kemari. Aku telah mengorbankan hidupku untuk tanah ini. Tidak jadi...

Cara paling mudah untuk mendekati rakyat adalah mendekati Sukarno – Sakaguchi

Seorang pemimpin Indonesia haruslah seorang sosok yang berwibawa. Dia harus memancarkan kekuatan. Bagi suatu bangsa yang pernah ditaklukan bangsa lain, ini penting sekali.

Education…has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.

Every past is worth condemning.

tradhtarë” katolikët e Bavarisë që luftuan kundër saj, me arsyen se, si katolikë, ata nuk mund të ishin tjetër veçse francezë.

To teach that a comparatively few men are responsible for the greatest forward steps of mankind is the worst sort of nonsense.

Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable.

These are illusions of popular history which successful religion must promote: Evil men never prosper; only the brave deserve the fair; honesty is the best policy; actions speak louder than words; virtue always triumpths; a...

I will be on the look out for you, my dear girl,” he wrote. “You must expect to give yourself up when you come.” For this buttoned-up age, for Burnham, it was a letter that...

God lives and works in history. The outward mythology changes, the inward truth remains the same.

Both teams played each other twice, we both won a game, each was close, and because of our history, yeah, it’s going to be a very important game to see where both our teams are...

Academics have given up trying to recover an honest picture of the past and have decided that their history-writing should be simply an instrument of moral hand-wringing.

marinate your mind

Throughout history, only a small number of people have done the serious thinking for everybody.

Enjoy the tiny unexplainable second. You can learn whatever you want.

…[G]reat progress was evident in the last Congress of the American ‘Labour Union’ in that among other things, it treated working women with complete equality. While in this respect the English, and still more the...

I want to bring back the club championship. This club has such a rich history. And I’m really big into member events. That seems like it’s fallen off the map here.

The anarch knows the rules. He has studied them as a historian and goes along with them as a contemporary. Wherever possible, he plays his own game within their framework; this makes the fewest waves.

Academic historians of the last hundred years or so get all stiff and tweedy when you suggest that people will go to all ends for the sake of their religion. They’ll assure you that religion...

The question of whether world peace will ever be possible can only be answered by someone familiar with world history. To be familiar with world history means, however, to know human beings as they have...

I was the most perfect scapegoat in history. Nobody was better than I was.

Progress is hard on history.

Mister Cameron – I have read the unexpurgated Ovid, the love poems of Sappho, the Decameron in the original, and a great many texts in Greek and Latin histories that were not though fit for...

History indicates that less than 10 percent of the meat recalled over a time period such as this is actually returned,

Storytelling is an essential part of our cultural and human identity…when we become afraid of stories outside the mainstream, I believe we have lost a valuable part of our cultural inheritance and growth.

The advantage of having an artistic tradition is that the younger artist could see an organic link between the real life of one’s country and its art work which is a sublimation of that life.