It is truth, in the old saying, that is ‘the daughter of time,’ and the lapse of half a century has not left us many of our illusions. Churchill tried and failed to preserve one...

He did not waste time in a vain search for a place in history.

Indiana was kind of like the common ground for all to come to at certain times in history.

One should never underestimate the role of stupidity in history

Physicians do not systematically prescribe placebos to their patients. Hence they have no way of comparing the effects of the drugs they prescribe to placebos. When they prescribe a treatment and it works, their natural...

We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.

…the holy men sat in an atmospherereeking of antiquity, so thick with thedust of ages that you can’t see through it–nor can they.

Much of human history has consisted of unequal conflicts between the haves and the have-nots.

We were young and thought we were invincible and we threw ourselves into the gears of history and it ground us up.

He had no ideal world of dead heroes; he knew little of the life of men in the past; he must find the beings to whom he could cling with loving admiration among those who...

Myths, legends and stories are the signposts previous generations have left us so we don’t have to figure out our own personal journey in solitude!They have to be metaphorical, because their interpretation will be different...

Simon Wiesenthal, like few others … personally felt the shadow of history in its brutality. … Despite this, I was always touched by the fact that he was not bitter and fought for justice admirably.

When facing a decision that stands a 50/50 chance of being correct, the choice made will be wrong 80% of the time. Rick Coxen

Apabila aku mencapai sesuatu selama di atas dunia, ini adalah karena rakyatku. Tanpa rakyat aku tidak berarti apa-apa. Kalau aku mati, kuburkanlah Bapakmu menurut agama Islam dan di atas batu kecil yang biasa engkau tulislah...

Tak ada orang progresif yang berpikiran sehat akan menentang cita-cita komunis, yang mencakup bantuan di bidang sosial dan ekonomi. Kami menyetujui ini semua. Tetapi aku tidak mungkin meninggalkan Tuhan. Aku tidak mungkin membuang nasionalisme dan...

Revolusi kini telah membuktikan dirinya sebagai pembantu-pembantuku yang baik dan loyal. Tentu tak ada yang mengira bahwa kami pernah berada pada pihak yang bertentangan. Kami hanya tidak sepakat di dalam taktik. Itulah cara dari orang-orang...

Seseorang tidak akan secara sukarela mempertahankan negerinya, kecuali jika dia seorang patriot yang penuh semangat. Perasaan kebencian terhadap sekutu yang anda akan tanamkan harus diperkuatvdengan perasaan cinta kepada tanah air yang sifatnya positif sebagaimana yang...

Tapi ingat Saudara-Saudara, tidak ada pengorbanan yang sia-sia.

By turning names into things we create false models of reality. By endowing nations, societies or cultures, with the qualities of internally homogeneous and externally distinctive bounded objects, we create a model of the world...

I am writing history, and I can’t be there.

In high school pottery class, I never made a whole vase. Instead I made fragments that I tried to sell as historical artifacts. The effort earned me an F in pottery, and an A in...

At the age of eight, John Quincy Adams was made the man of his house while his father, John Adams, was off doing important John Adams things for America. This would be a lot of...

It was one of the worst days in U.S. financial history, and he dealt with the repercussions very well.

He also telephoned the Real Time Computer Complex on the ground floor of the Operations Wing to ask that an additional big I.B.M. computer be brought onto the line.

It is a man’s duty to have books. A library is not a luxury, but one of the necessaries in life.

History is important. If you don’t know history it is as if you were born yesterday. And if you were born yesterday, anybody up there in a position of power can tell you anything, and...

History always constitutes the relation between a present and its past. Consequently fear of the present leads to mystification of the past

Achilles too staggered a moment. He felt his soul change colour. Blood pooled at his feet, and though he continued to stand upright and triumphant in the sun, his spirit set off on its own...

In His free grace, God is for man in every respect; He surrounds man from all sides. He is man’s Lord who is before him, above him, after him, and thence also with him in...

Warfare is a series of tragedies enjoined by logistics.

Sering kita menundukkan kepala karena sedih dan malu atas tragedy kemanusiaan sebagai akibat pertalutang (elit) politik 1965. Jutaan orang telah menjada korban pembunuhan, penyiksaan, pemenjaraan, dan peminggiran. Karen alas an politik pula mereka tidak diakui,...

In the history of the world, we have left our footprints by our unique stories.

What really happened doesn’t matter. What matters is how we agree to remember it.

But everyone involved here has to know that you’re dealing with an irreplaceable, nonrenewable piece of history.

We can talk about our dreams all night, Lisette. We can talk forever, for the rest of our lives, living one adventure after another, I promise. But not now, my darling Lisette. For now, all...

If the great figures of this nation’s history were alive today, they would all have to say that they committed a felony when they applied for a job at McDonald’s.

At her funeral, Diana’s brother observed, ‘Of all the ironies about Diana, perhaps the greatest was this— a girl given the name of the ancient goddess of hunting was, in the end, the most hunted...

Thenceforth they thought that, rationally concluded, doubt could become an instrument of knowledge.

The volumes which record the history of the human race are filled with the deeds and the words of great men . . . [but] The Twentieth Century Woman . . . questions the completeness...

Histories don’t make men; men make histories.

…little people like me have to keep the true story alive. That way, when the revolution ends, and people come looking for the history, we can say, ‘Here it is – we kept it for...

And that, …is the story of our country, one invasion after another…Macedonians. Saddanians. Arabs. Mongols. Now the Soviets. But we’re like those walls up there. Battered, and nothing pretty to look at, but still standing.

I’ll tell you another secret, this one for your own good. You may think the past has something to tell you. You may think that you should listen, should strain to make out its whispers,...

Plutarch taught me high thoughts; he elevated me above the wretched sphere of my own reflections, to admire and love the heroes of past ages. Many things I read surpassed my understanding and experience. I...

A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.

It’s great to be part of history. We wrote it and now we are part of history. We played our hearts out. My team stepped up while I was on the bench, which I knew...

The curtains were not yet drawn and with the moonlight spreading across the room, I could see clearly. I undressed and slipped a soft cotton gown over my naked body. I pulled the blanket off...

I was missing lectures leading up to an essay test, so I went downstairs & got my textbook & pretended to study, with Animal Planet playing in the background. Everyone we learned about was either...

Come the revolution, however, mesmerism was reconceived once more. From its beginnings many had seen it as an aristocratic fad: Mesmer (by this stage long gone to Germany and Switzerland) had made a fortune from...

Citizens of South Dakota should be proud of their courageous legislators for making history by being the first state to create a law that bans all surgical abortions without exception. American Life League salutes these...