Now she could smell what the jaguar could smell, odors deeper and richer than anything she had experienced before, layers of smell she could read like Fray Tomás had read the words in her father’s...

When the BC job came open I was interested. I knew the program and its history of coaches from both as a player and a coach. I thought I could leave my mark here and...

He is the most recognized figure in the history of this city and when visitors ask about him, I point to the center. We hope he has a long and continuing life and hopefully, one...

It is the vice of the journalist, I once wrote, to think that history can always be reduced to experience, and of the scholar to think that experience can always be reduced to history. History...

Like some translucen latterday Cassandra, the prophetess of doom, (Heila the Comptesse von Westarp, the former secretary of the Thule Gesellschaff) rose up from the bosom of the limp and slumbering medium (Dr. Nemirovitch-Dantchanko) to...

The biggest bull market in history still appears to be intact, … Although the market is up tenfold since 1982 and lots of wealth has been created, there are still buyers to be found on...

Mythology is a set of primitive lies that people rarely believe. This is rather different from history, which is a set of lies that people believe.

The Bretton Woods saga unfurled at a unique crossroads in modern history. An ascendant anticolonial superpower, the United States, used its economic leverage over an insolvent allied imperial power, Great Britain, to set the terms...

History books are being re-written all the time

The proposed state non-game wildlife grants mark a real first in national conservation history, … Never before has Washington offered a dedicated source of federal funding to the states for them to tailor programs benefiting...

It really is an opportunity for a piece of The Plaza. It is New York history and world history, really.

For us, it was an opportunity to add a player without subtracting a player. Our history here, usually we’re trading a player to acquire a player.

It’s a story that fails as history, but that’s why it succeeds as scripture — because it’s elliptical, … The story has the ability to be perpetually now.

The first thing I encountered on entering the museum was the earliest steam engine built in England. As I walked on, marveling at each successive mechanical wonder, I realized that I was witnessing the history...

For feeling, not events, is to me the essence of history.

Why are these things permitted? What sins have we done? The morning service was over, I was walking through the roads to clear my brain for the afternoon, and then—fire, earthquake, death! As if it...

Muhammad adhered meticulously to the charter he forged for Medina, which – grounded as it was in the Quranic injunction, “Let there be no compulsion in religion” (2:256) – is arguably the first mandate for...

You may ask why I write. And yet my reasons are quite many. For it is not unusual in human beings who have witnessed the sack of a city or the falling to pieces of...

…neither life nor history is an enterprise for those who seek simplicity and consistency.

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...

To be an effective criminal defense counsel, an attorney must be prepared to be demanding, outrageous, irreverent, blasphemous, a rogue, a renegade, and a hated, isolated, and lonely person – few love a spokesman for...

History is lived through and, for the fortunate, survived by people.

Neither a wise nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.

Wise men will apply their remedies to vices, not to names; to the causes of evil which are permanent, not to the occasional organs by which they act, and the transitory modes in which they...

The raconteur knows too well that, if he investigates the truth of the matter, he is only too likely to lose his good story.

Peradaban Islam akan dibahas sebagaimana ia berkembang melalui proses peleburan tradisi-tradisi tertentu dengan hakekat seruan Nabi yang berkebangsaan Arab itu.

The history of man proves that religion perverts man’s concept of life and the universe, and has made him a cringing coward before the blind forces of nature.If you believe that there is a God;...

Those are the trials of history!

In the beginning was the word, and primitive societies venerated poets second only to their leaders. A poet had the power to name and so to control; he was, literally, the living memory of a...

We can learn from history, but we can also deceive ourselves when we selectively take evidence from the past to justify what we have already made up our minds to do.

Right now, in every big city ghetto, tens of thousands of yesterday’s and today’s school dropouts are keeping body and soul together by some form of hustling in the same way I did.

Henric a fost un individ complex, impulsiv si schimbator, care se pricepea sa ii deruteze pe cei din jur atunci cand incercau sa afle motivele pentru care facea un lucru sau altul. In plus, este...

There are two kind of people in the world those who wish to be remembered, and those who are always remembered.

We’re going through probably the greatest transformation in American history of any city in this short period of time, … I just want to savor every moment of it.

When he, whoever of the gods it was, had thus arranged in order and resolved that chaotic mass, and reduced it, thus resolved, to cosmic parts, he first moulded the Earth into the form of...

The New Testament was not written by historians with the critical spirit of a Thucydides or a Polybius, but by men moved by the fervor of faith. Under these circumstances, it is understandable that it...

Not everybody can let himself drift along the flow of history. Some of us have to stop to pick up what’s washed up on the banks of the river.

The statue of Justice, symbol of the law, as she holds aloft her balance scale, is blindfolded. Justice is blind to race, creed, color – and to personal eccentricity. If there were a comparable state...