Everyone knows history is written by the winners, but that cliche misses a crucial detail: Over time, the winners are always the progressives. Conservatism can only win in the short term, because society cannot stop...

The history of astronomy is a history of receding horizons.

Rome tolerated every abominable practice, embraced every foul idea in the name of freedom and the rights of the common man. Citizens no longer carried on deviant behavior in private, but pridefully displayed it in...

A photograph is a universe of dots. The grain, the halide, the little silver things clumped in the emulsion. Once you get inside a dot, you gain access to hidden information, you slide into the...

The conditions encountered so far have been rather reasonable. Past history tells us the Cape Horn leg is the toughest because it takes the fleet the furthest into the southern ocean.

Demokrasi Indonesia, yang banyak disalahpahami di luar negeri kami, didasarkan pada prinsip mufakat, bukan pada jumlah suara. Kami tidak lagi memakai sistem demokrasi Barat ini yang didasarkan atas suara terbanyak, dimana 51 persen suara berhak...

He’ll be remembered as a history maker. He won three state championships and set school records.

If history teaches us anything, it’s that governments are always right, and they always do what’s in the best interest of the people, even at the expense of their own political agenda. In every situation,...

If we wish to foresee the future of mathematics, our proper course is to study the history and present condition of the science.

Captive Greece took captive her savage conquerer and brought the arts to rustic Latium

Slavery has been outlawed in most arab countries for years now but there are villages in jordan made up entirely of descendants of runaway Saudi slaves. Abdulrahman knows he might be free, but hes still...

I know it is the fashion to say that most of recorded history is lies anyway. I am willing to believe that history is for the most part inaccurate and biased, but what is peculiar...

Only the dead have seen the end of war.” Perhaps the death of us all is called for in this time of emotional desperation. War is a product of the mind; only with the death...

I didn’t do it in 1066. But I’m only not guilty because I wasn’t quite alive then. The ferocity of the Normans not named Norman is underestimated in history, and I fear neither woman nor...

There had been a time, until 1422, when a number of both Gaelic and Anglo-Irish students attended Oxford and Cambridge in England. But fellow students had complained that Irish living together in large numbers sooner...

History plays for keeps; individuals play for time.

The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism....

Despre comunism:„Tot ce am aflat după c teva mii de ani de istorie, este că cea mai bună dintre formele posibile ale conviețuirii noastre pe păm nt este democrația societăților de tip occidental; că această...

Burr had the dark and severe coloring of his Edwards ancestry, with black hair receding from the forehead and dark brown, almost black, eyes that suggested a cross between an eagle and a raven. Hamilton...

Kita umat Islam di Indonesia terikat pada adat-kebiasaan dan kebudayaan kita, dan ini mempunyai pengaruh pula pada Islam yang kita amalkan di tanah air kita ini.

Rumors are the children of truth.

It’s been a long journey. There’s so much history, so many people, different agendas.

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can’t ride you unless your back...

Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please.

Present has always been in comparison with past.

Those unable to catalog the past are doomed to repeat it.

We’re not eight kingdoms, but an entire land with one heartbeat. It’s why people like you and I need to record our people’s stories so we can find those moments when our paths cross, and...

Newton’s work on gravity led to the discovery of the Lagrange point, a place where opposing forces cancel one another out, and a body may remain at relative rest. This is where I am right...

The guerilla campaigns being waged in China today are a page in history that has no precedent. Their influence will be confined not solely to China in her present anti-Japanese struggle, but will be world-wide.

History repeats itself but without a parity bit

Ya hoy la historia no es más que la estrecha hebra de lo recordado sobre el océano de lo olvidado, pero el tiempo sigue su marcha y llegará la época en que los años tengan...

For within the very structure of family life, in families that do or did embrace the male religions, are the almost invisibly accepted social customs and life patterns that reflect the one-time strict adherence to...

In comparison, young unmarried women in America were fortunate: They had a certain measure of sexual freedom. Eighteenth-century parents allowed their daughters to spend tie with suitors unsupervised, and courting couples openly engaged in “bundling,”...

Jason has had a history of leaning out over the plate, trying to get hit. He stuck his elbow guard out over the plate and I told him not to. He had a problem with...

During the second half of the twentieth century, cross-fertilization among the disciplines of history, literature, sociology, and psychology led to scholarly awareness that historical accounts are not direct representations of actual events; they are, instead,...

An entire mythology is stored within our language.

It is then he realises that certain things loom larger than forgiveness and reconciliation: memory, for one, and history, bloody history.

The Al Saud believe they have an asset more powerful than the ballot box: they have Allah.

Look son, the Human Pig.(shocked)Mother, y-you’re inhuman!(deadpan)Another animal could do this?

The truth is often so much more complicated than the digest version that’s handed down to us.

To look back before 1800 is to enter another world, one where the number of institutions for the mad was a tiny fraction of today’s and what we would now call mental disorders were often...

You are what you read.

Physics advances by accepting absurdities. Its history is one of unbelievable ideas proving to be true.

The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it.

Đặc điểm lớn nhất của xứ sở này là nhược tiểu. Đ y là một cô gái đồng trinh bị nền văn minh Trung Hoa cưỡng hiếp. Cô gái ấy vừa thích thú, vừa nhục...

I think it’s totally cultural ? we don’t have the history of a mating dance. It’s very difficult for men to approach women here I get a lot of rolled eyes. In New York and...

Just the other day, I was in my neighborhood Starbucks, waiting for the post office to open. I was enjoying a chocolatey cafe mocha when it occurred to me that to drink a mocha is...

It is difficult at times to repress the thought that history is about as instructive as an abattoir; that Tacitus was right and that peace is merely the desolation left behind after the decisive operations...

History is testimony to the fact that kings, who did so ended up in ruins and misery. Such kings were always devoid of stability, peace and success.

Tomorrow, I need you to die.