So a dog’s value came from the training AND the breeding. And by breeding, Edgar supposed he meant both the bloodlines – the particular dogs in their ancestry – and all the information in the...

The early settlers amazed her–they had pluck, they led lives of sweaty drama. Theirs was a world of corsets and whipping posts and indentured servitude. People worked the land and died in ungainly ways. Modern...

There began to appear before my romantic eyes…a vast and complicated network of espionage, terror, sadism and hate, from which no one, official or private, could escape.

I thought I had been a suffragist before I became a Poor Law Guardian, but now I began to think about the vote in women’s hands not only as a right but as a desperate...

transsexual” are all imperfect, historical, temporary, and arbitrary. We use them, and they use us. We use them to construct meaningful lives, and they mold us into historically specific forms of personhood. Instead of fighting...

Kalau dalam bidang keagamaan sendiri terdapat keragaman dalam kesatuan, maka dalam kebudayaan Islam sudah semestinya pula terdapat keragaman – Zia ‘Gokalp (1875-1924)

I also know that there have been many times in our history when the proximity of an election has induced exactly the kind of leadership and consensus-building that produce progress in our democracy.

…And so history gets writtento prove the legend is ridiculous. But soon the legendreplaces the history because the legend is more interesting.

Time is going really faster than you think. That second just passed now, get up, pack the bag, get lost…

As individuals express their life, so they are.

There is no nation in the history that has not experienced bloodshed and murdering. We all have committed the same mistakes in a different manner.

Bruno withdrew from the field of history more resolutely than Vigo; that is why I prefer the former’s retrospect but the latter’s prospect. As an anarch, I am determined to go along with nothing, ultimately...

History remembers only the names of the conquerors. There are no pages devoted to the scruples of the losers.

We have learned that history is something that takes no notice whatever of our expectations.

History is a symptom of our disease

It’ll be a change,” says Marcus. “Something different.””Not a mystery.”Marcus laughs. “No. Not a mystery. Just a nice safe history.”Ah, my darling. But there is no such thing.

By the death of Mr. O. Chanute the world has lost one whose labors had to an unusual degree influenced the course of human progress. If he had not lived the entire history of progress...

Perhaps that is the greatest crime of conquest–that a civilization is denied the right to evolve beyond its own embarrassment.

Thousands, if not millions, of people had exchanged life for the negation of life simply so that someone like me could have the pleasure of riding in a taxi. And now thousands more were throwing...

A poet in history is divine, but a poet in the next room is a joke.

Rome was mud and smoky skies; the rank smell of the Tiber and the exotically spiced cooking fires of a hundred different nationalities. Rome was white marble and gilding and heady perfumes; the blare of...

History! Read it and weep!

We’ve had many other instances in history where (governments) had to re-jig expenditures to make sure that they stayed on course. That may be the scenario they’re facing this spring,

History is we, not them.

Our goal is to calculate the masses and ages for these young stars, so that we can map their history and get a general scenario of the star formation in that region.

Our nights are different. She falls asleep like someone yielding to the gentle tug of a warm tide, and floats with confidence till morning. I fall asleep more grudgingly, thrashing at the waves, either reluctant...

If history is written by the victors, conspiracy theory is typically written by the losers, and there were few greater losers in the revolution than the French church and especially the Jesuits.

Barring anything, he’s going to finish one of four players in the history of the game with 30 (points), seven rebounds and six assists. And look at the company Michael (Jordan), Oscar (Robertson) and Jerry...

Give me liberty or give me death.”[From a speech given at Saint John’s Church in Richmond, Virginia on March 23, 1775 to the Virginia House of Burgesses; as first published in print in 1817 in...

Is this, Miriam wonders, what they call the march of history? And even if she doesn’t fully understand, it doesn’t mean she can’t appreciate the need, the periodic need for some people to resort to...

The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability. Our business in every generation is to reclaim a little more land, to...

I was born in the age of “alas”.

The philosopher and historian George Santayana once remarked that those who do not know their history are doomed to repeat its mistakes. A perusal of some of the essays will reveal that this is not...

History made when mindset changed.

In Shanghai’s prime, no city in the Orient, or the world for that matter, could compare with it. At the peak of its spectacular career the swamp-ridden metropolis surely ranked as the most pleasure-mad, rapacious,...

Confronted with the problems that characterize our herding culture, we are perhaps like the metaphorical man wounded by an arrow that the Buddha discussed with his students. He said that the man would be foolish...

Service without ideal of self . . . trains you to transcend all the artificial distinctions imposed by history and geography, and to realize that the human community is one and indivisible.

It’s nice to be a part of some history. Our team is a young team and we don’t have a lot of records set. That’s a lot of wins to put together in this league....

And yet, Lacedaemonians, you still delay, and fail to see that peace stays longest with those, who are not more careful to use their power justly than to show their determination not to submit to...

…Amar was made conscious in an instant of a presence in the air, something which had been there all the time, but which he had never isolated and identified. The thing was in him, he...

We are thrilled to report the best quarter in Apple’s history. We are working on more wonderful products for 2006, and I can’t wait to see what our customers think of them.

Many guilty consciences have been created by the slave trade. Europeans know that they carried on the slave trade, and Africans are aware that the trade would have been impossible if certain Africans did not...

Ialways think it’s funny when Indians celebrate Thanksgiving. I mean, sure, the Indians and Pilgrims were best friends during the first Thanksgiving, but a few years later, the Pilgrims were shooting Indians.So I’m never quite...

Yes, I know, it’s not the truth, but in a great history little truths can be altered so that the greater truth emerges.

It’s very important that people take back their minds and that people analyse our dilemma in the context of the entire human story from the descent onto the grassland to our potential destiny as citizens...

The claim at the heart of this book has been carefully researched by several generations of scholars and is orthodox in academic circles, if not beyond. Christians under the Roman Empire were neither constantly persecuted...

History was ignorant and had a mean streak, so it tended to repeat.

The only people who really think they have seen something new are those whose experience is limited or whose vision can’t penetrate beneath the surface of things. Because something is recent, they think it is...

Like all religious people, Christians repress, remember, and retell their core stories selectively. They emphasize this episode at the expense of that episode, in keeping with their own biases and the preoccupations of their times.

You don’t rewrite it, censor it, or edit it, to suit some warped view you have of the past and your own present.