Reading. The erotics of reading for me — its moment of trembling pleasure — lie in those times when I realise that what I am reading is just what I was about to say. It...

At the Beginning there was Incomplete information,then belief and then an abstract idea but if you reach Pure reasoning then you start to understand the dualities of life itself.The sunset,the sunrise;A star from approximately 93...

Everyday is judgement day

Ya, aku orang yang bersifat adil. Aku kasih tahu apa yang harus kau lakukan. Kalau engkau bisa lulus ujian, kami akan membolehkanmu masuk. Nah, di sana ada danau dengan sebuah titian yang sangat kecil terentang...

Sukarno adalah seorang individualis. Manusia yang angkuh dengan ego yang membakar-bakar, yang mengaku bahwa ia mencintai dirinya sendiri, tidak mungkin menjadi pengikut pihak lain. Sukarno tidak mungkin tunduk pada dominasi kekuasaan lain manapun. Dia tidak...

Aku perintahkan kepadamu untuk menyebar tentara ke desa-desa. Isilah seluruh lembah dan bukit. Tempatkan anak buahmu di setiap semak belukar. Ini adalah perang gerilya total 100 persen. Sekalipun kita harus kembali melakukan amputasi tanpa obat...

Kesakitan yang dirasakan oleh siapa saja ini hanyalah kerikil di jalan menuju kemerdekaan. Langkahilah dia. Kalau engkau jatuh karenanya, berdirilah kembali dan terus berjalan.

Mereka seharusnya belajar, bahwa seseorang tidak akan dapat memimpin massa rakyat jika tidak masuk ke daoam lingkungan mereka.

I have come to the conclusion that none of us in our generation feels as guilty about sin as we should or as our forefathers did.

Just as if Manetho’s “Aegyptiaca” or the second book of Aristotle’s “Poetics” reappeared, the simple fact that such a significant text as “The Gospel of Judas,” believed to be lost forever, comes back to light,...

The United States of America was a pirate nation for the first one hundred years of its existence, ripping off the patents and trademarks of the imperial European powers it had liberated itself from by...

Free pyramids! Buy one, get one half buried.

Each Inspirational Messenger who was and has been acknowledged in the history books was done so because of the way they chose to live. Their life had a core message that was central to their...

It appears history is going to keep happening, despite our hopes for retirement.

Nonetheless the man (Hitler) had a remarkable ability to transform himself into something far more compelling, especially when speaking in public or during private meetings when some topic enraged him. He had a knack as...

breath is not aware of its history; it is just breath.I wish I could be like that, or love could be like that.

To be a Russian writer at the end of the nineteenth century must have meant bearing an inescapably bitter fate. The more they tried to escape from Russia, the more deeply Russia swallowed them.

Intellectual activity in a culture is not a one-way flow between the great minds and passive recipients; it is a discourse, a complex marketplace-like conglomeration of intellectual exchanges involving many participants all trying to manipulate...

It’s the most important exhibit in the Oregon Historical Society’s 107-year history.

I felt I was in the loneliest place in the world, and I was apprehensive. Nothing could be heard except the occasional crash of an unknown creature in the forest, and, once in awhile, a...

Every time when you think,Think about every first 20 seconds of your best Moments in your life time.

Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders.

I’m not quite sure of his place in history. History will determine that.

No moment is ever isolatedWith history elsewhere, drilling its stitches.

Never lend if you need repayment; never give where you want a return.

History deals with situations and figures not imaginary but real. It demands therefore a combination of qualities unnecessary to the poet or writer of romance – glacial judgment coupled with fervent sympathy. The poet may...

In many ways the recent history of the Ukraine can be seen as an intensified version of the history of our era. Most of the political issues are familiar to us. Most of the methods...

Social ascendency, innocently disguised as high fashion, good taste or prestigious expenditure, was the same the world over.

People are always shouting they want to create a better future. It’s not true. The future is an apathetic void of no interest to anyone. The past is full of life, eager to irritate us,...

Our history here in Sackets Harbor, our whole renaissance that’s taken place over the last 25-30 years, is based on the fact that the community has come to understand how important it’s history is, and...

I think it’s important for people to know the history of items, where they came from and how they came to be. I’ve found a niche that has opened up a new world and helped...

Indeed, the future is signalled in the past, but time has to pass to see it. Art is the witness.BLOG post-Perpetual Beginning-November 14 2011

And once upon a time I wondered: Is writing epic fantasy not somehow a betrayal? Did I not somehow do a disservice to my own reality by paying so much attention to the power fantasies...

A lot of the nonsense was the innocent result of playfulness on the part of the founding fathers of the nation of Dwayne Hoover and Kilgore Trout. The founders were aristocrats, and they wished to...

This is a way to keep history alive.

No Statue of Liberty ever greeted our arrival in this country…we did not, in fact, come to the United States at all. The United States came to us.

A nonhuman animal had better have a good lawyer. In 1508, Bartholomé Chassenée earned fame and fortune for his eloquent representation of the rats of his French province. These rats had been charged with destroying...

To be ignorant of history is to remain always a child.

At Bow Street Magistrates’ Court the essential facts were established. The man’s name was James Tilly Matthews. He was a pauper of the south London parish of Camberwell. He had a wife and a young...

If somebody tells you ‘History will never forgive you,’ just laugh at him! Because when the history comes, you won’t be here! The threat of history never forgives you is a useless threat!

In late 1949, at two and a half years old, I arrived in Jamaica for the first time. I had crossed the Atlantic by air from England. My Jamaican father was studying in London, my...

History that is presented only as ink-embalmed data is as a flower pressed in a book. Although the dry petals still hold all the elements of the original flower, they cannot show us how it...

They never let you live it down. One little mistake!”- Nero

Considering thus how much honor is awarded to antiquity, and how many times—letting pass infinite other examples—a fragment of an ancient statue has been bought at high price because someone wants to have it near...

A ruling government can’t afford to publish history in a version which lessens its’ chance for reelection.

Yesterday is the history chapter in the book of life, isn’t it time you turned the page?

If the past cannot teach the present and the father cannot teach the son, then history need not have bothered to go on, and the world has wasted a great deal of time.

That figure stood for a long time wholly in the light; this arose from a certain legendary dimness evolved by the majority of heroes, and which always veils the truth for a longer or shorter...

History, as it was purveyed to us, was not so much a narrative, not even the detached observation of the rise and fall of fortunes and cultures. It was the litany of loss, attended by...

The absence of romance in my history will, I fear, detract somewhat from its interest, but if it is judged worthy by those inquirers who desire an exact knowledge of the past as an aid...