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Bung Karno, besok aku akan digantung. Aku meninggalkan dunia yang fana ini dengan hati gembira, pergi ke tiang gantungan dengan keyakinan dan kekuatan batin karena aku tahu Bung Karno akan melanjutkan perjuangan ini yang juga...

Regard for the past only extends to its outward forms.

The longer a life, the challenge is not the distance between destinations, but the difficulty of travelling light. My soul’s a portmanteau packed full, one half filled with what was, the other with what is,...

Using a combination of history, common sense, the Word of God and the Spirit of God, every leader can generally predict the way things will go.

I’ve always felt that distant train whistles heard in the dead of night are the universe’s way of letting us know the best days are neither ahead nor behind us…they’re happening right now, cradled in...

Because some things that seem unimportant now can change the course of human history — and I am a student of human history.

When the government puts its imprimatur on a particular religion it conveys a message of exclusion to all those who do not adhere to the favored beliefs. A government cannot be premised on the belief...

Nobody can understand the greatness of the thirteenth century, who does not realize that it was a great growth of new things produced by a living thing. In that sense it was really bolder and...

Devise some creed, and live it, beyond theirs,Or I shall think you but their spendthrift heirs.

The willingness to undertake such action cannot be based on certainties, but on those possibilities glimpsed in a reading of history different from the customary painful recounting of human cruelties. In such a reading we...

Behind every legendary monster, there is an unknown tragedy.

Pokok terpenting bukanlah mencari hubungan melainkan menetapkan perbandingan.

History teaches us lessons. How come there are no Chinese in the valley now? They were all chased off.

The whole history of calendar-making is that of successive attempts to reconcile the irreconcilable, and the numberless systems of intercalated months, and the like, are thus of minor scientific interest.

Why do many believers insist on repeatedly pointing to the crimes of 20th century dictators who led officially atheistic societies as some sort of evidence of their god’s existence? It makes no sense.If the rivers...

It’s not that things are perfect, and you could argue that things are still early in the history of the Internet, … but the business models that are built on it are more real and...

We have a history of doing things in situations like these. And our president has made it clear that we want to talk to all of our associates, some of whom lost homes, and we...

The sea is nothing but a library of all the tears in history.

Mohammad never assigned himself a status more than a common man and a messenger of God. People had faith in him when he was surrounded by poverty and adversity and trusted him while he was...

[N]icht durch Reden und Majoritätsbeschlüsse werden die großen Fragen der Zeit entschiedenen […] sondern durch Eisen und Blut.

In historical events great men – so-called – are but labels serving to give a name to the event, and like labels they have the least possible connexion with the event itself.

For when all else is done, on­ly words re­main. Words en­dure.

We’re hoping to make a documentary of the history of Oceanside.

Thinking back on the outing to the theatre, she added, ‘I want a man, not a preening peacock!

knowing deep inside some ghosts are too cruel to question

Give me a scholar, therefore, who is able to think and to write, to look with an eye of discernment into things, and to do business himself, if called upon, who hath both civil and...

I frequently detect a hint of satisfaction in the accounts that manage to excavate moral and individual responsibility from the historical debris. Perhaps it is because of the unspoken belief that changing the people will...

Old books exert a strange fascination for me — their smell, their feel, their history; wondering who might have owned them, how they lived, what they felt.

But love, like the sun that it is, sets afire and melts everything. what greed and privilege to build up over whole centuries the indignation of a pious spirit, with its natural following of oppressed...

Chamberlain raised his saber, let loose the shout that was the greatest sound he could make, boiling the yell up from his chest: Fix bayonets! Charge! Fix bayonets! Charge! Fix bayonets! Charge! He leaped down...

Mojo” around his neck.

There were many deficits in our swamp education, but Grandpa Sawtooth, to his credit, taught us the names of whole townships that had been forgotten underwater. Black pioneers, Creek Indians, moonshiners, women, ‘disappeared’ boy soldiers...

We think of 1789 as the date of the French Revolution, and the storming of the Bastille as its defining event. Yet as late as halfway through 1792, most of the familiar images of the...

The more I study history, the more I realize people are the same. The same issues come up again and again. In terms of marriage, relationships and courtship, it’s all basically the same.

If we forget our past, then we lose direction. We become lost on a changing sea, easy prey for the shifting currents of the moment.

If history really forever repeats itself: then, it has always been then.

Any fool can make history, but it takes a genius to write it.

difference,” but accepting that multiculturalism spreads across the very inner core of America’s institutions, and ingrained in the very essence of life, for multicultural perspectives, ideas, and ideologies empower us to elevate the multicultural discourse...

Acts 16:9 is the meddler’s motto, simultaneously selfless and self-serving, generous but stuck-up. Into every generation of Americans is born a new crop of buttinskys sniffing out the latest Macedonia that may or may not...

The Northern powers are more like administrators, who manipulate other people’s history but produce none of their own. They are the stock-jobbers of history, lives are their units of exchange. Lives as they are lived,...

Historical sense and poetic sense should not, in the end, be contradictory, for if poetry is the little myth we make, history is the big myth we live, and in our living, constantly remake.

Matt was almost completely naked. A tattered loincloth and an ugly chain with a yellow diamond were his only apparel.

How in hell did those bombers get up there every single second of our lives! Why doesn’t someone want to talk about it! We’ve started and won two atomic wars since 2022! Is it because...

Delight in smooth sounding platitudes, refusal to face unpleasant facts … genuine love of peace and pathetic belief that love can be its sole foundation … the utter devotion of the Liberals to sentiment apart...

Qur’an #2 The Qur’anic relevations said to fall into 2 categories. Those received in Makkah establish the credentials of Muhammad as the Prophet of Islam and talk about communities and generations. Whilst those received in...

Once you realize your past is just a story, it no longer has any power over you.

We’re at a time in our history right now where we can move our state forward as never seen before or we can continue to languish in mediocrity and complacency, … I choose to move...

Waktu mendengar gamelan dan menghirup bau bunga bercampur kemenyan, pikiran saya pasti melayang ke masa lampau.Orang-orang memungut bunga di permadani yang dilalui adik untuk disimpan. Bunga itu mendatangkan bahagia, kata orang. Dan kepada anak-anak perempuan...

We know very well that we have ancestors. But our ancestors are not only human. We have animal ancestors; we have plant ancestors; and we have mineral ancestors. Our human ancestors are still very young....