Life is too short to be anything but happy. So kiss slowly. Love deeply. Forgive quickly. Take chances and never have regrets. Forget the past but remember what it taught you.

Somehow the past is a safe place to explore our collective cultural neuroses.

We are a day away from making history, and a history towards the breaking of tommorrow.

Science uses the Red Shift to measure deep cosmic distances. But how to measure deep historic time? How about—the Saffron Shift.If history itself had a color, it is . . . like wood or bark,...

Considerable thought was given in early Congresses to the possibility of renaming the country. From the start, many people recognized that United States of America was unsatisfactory. For one thing, it allowed of no convenient...

We know we’re not a title-contending team right now, but in the history of teams winning titles they tend to take their lumps for a little while before they finally get there.

History isn’t written by the winners – it’s written by everyone – it’s a jigsaw of facts from contradictory sources. But every once in a while, you unearth that one original document that no one...

Rather than heralding a new era of easy living, the Agricultural Revolution left farmers with lives generally more difficult and less satisfying than those of foragers. Hunter-gatherers spent their time in more stimulating and varied...

Darnley, who, like Banquo’s ghost, seemed to play a much more effective part in Scottish politics once he was dead than when he was alive.

Every moment happens twice: inside and outside, and they are two different histories.

a man who did a huge service for the world’s modern history.

There are moments when one feels a desperate gratitude for museums, whatever their own ambiguous histories. Their objects from lost cities lead us back to who we are.

If everyone knows so much about it, why do they need to make a documentary?

One who has lived through the days of Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, and the Japanese war lords feels something that a younger generation does not concerning the aberrations that are possible in this world.

This only is denied to God: the power to undo the past.

We do not know whether Hitler is going to found a new Islam. He is already on the way; he is like Mohammad. The emotion in Germany is Islamic; warlike and Islamic. They are all...

By its very nature, history is always a one-sided account.

That is the way we decided to talk, free and easy, two young men discussing a boxing match. That was the only way to talk. You couldn’t let too much truth seep into your conversation,...

A final word should be said concerning the status of free blacks. Before the American Revolution this status had been ambiguous, and the number of free blacks was insignificant. A rash of new laws, similar...

This corner of history was as real as the tiled floor under our feet or the wooden tabletop under our fingers. The people to whom it had happened had actually lived and breathed and felt...

People say you’re born innocent, but it’s not true. You inherit all kinds of things that you can do nothing about. You inherit your identity, your history, like a birthmark that you can’t wash off....

Study the historian before you begin to study the facts.

Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.

For the first time in the history of relations between Russia and China we will have a demarcation of our common border throughout its entire length. … For the first time a unique model of...

Eurocentrism is quite simply the colonizer’s model of the world.

Einsteinian” relativity or of Planck’s quantum theory in relation to Newton’s discoveries. They take absolutely nothing away from the greatness of the learned Englishman. Thanks to Newton, physics was able to advance until it achieved...

Think of tomorrow, the past can’t be mended.

History is about the past. Yet it exists only in the present – the moment of its creation as history provides us with a narrative constructed after the events with which it is concerned. The...

American whale oil lit the world. It was used in the production of soap, textiles, leather, paints, and varnishes, and it lubricated the tools and machines that drove the Industrial Revolution. The baleen cut from...

Aku sendiri tidak takut akan keselamatan diriku, tapi rakyatku yang selalu diliputi kekuatiran.

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.