This may be the most important proposition revealed by history: ‘At the time, no one knew what was coming.

New political systems and philosophies were imported into the Near East under the general term democracy and grafted artificially into a society which was feudal in nature and theocratic in spirit. The results were not...

Peradaban Barat di bawahnya berkumpul kebudayaan Barat berlainan dari berbagai bangsa Eropa. Peradaban Islam menyatukan beraneka ragam kebudayaan untuk Islam yang terdiri atas berbagai bangsa Timur.

One might also say that history is not about the past. If you think about it, no one ever lived in the past. Washington, Jefferson, John Adams, and their contemporaries didn’t walk about saying, “Isn’t...

That’s what I believe. I believe that universe wants to be noticed. I think the universe is improbably biased toward consciousness, that it rewards intelligence in part because the universe enjoys its elegance being observed....

The elements are a way to define what abstract is; and abstract is a taught as like any other than ,what to think? and how to think? and you may begin..

Communism is the riddle of history solved, and it knows itself to be this solution.

From the ethical point of view, no one can escape responsibility with the excuse that he is only an individual, on whom the fate of the world does not depend. Not only can this not...

But everyone involved here has to know that you’re dealing with an irreplaceable, nonrenewable piece of history.

We can talk about our dreams all night, Lisette. We can talk forever, for the rest of our lives, living one adventure after another, I promise. But not now, my darling Lisette. For now, all...

If the great figures of this nation’s history were alive today, they would all have to say that they committed a felony when they applied for a job at McDonald’s.

At her funeral, Diana’s brother observed, ‘Of all the ironies about Diana, perhaps the greatest was this— a girl given the name of the ancient goddess of hunting was, in the end, the most hunted...

Thenceforth they thought that, rationally concluded, doubt could become an instrument of knowledge.

The volumes which record the history of the human race are filled with the deeds and the words of great men . . . [but] The Twentieth Century Woman . . . questions the completeness...

Histories don’t make men; men make histories.

…little people like me have to keep the true story alive. That way, when the revolution ends, and people come looking for the history, we can say, ‘Here it is – we kept it for...

And that, …is the story of our country, one invasion after another…Macedonians. Saddanians. Arabs. Mongols. Now the Soviets. But we’re like those walls up there. Battered, and nothing pretty to look at, but still standing.

I’ll tell you another secret, this one for your own good. You may think the past has something to tell you. You may think that you should listen, should strain to make out its whispers,...

Plutarch taught me high thoughts; he elevated me above the wretched sphere of my own reflections, to admire and love the heroes of past ages. Many things I read surpassed my understanding and experience. I...

A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.

It’s great to be part of history. We wrote it and now we are part of history. We played our hearts out. My team stepped up while I was on the bench, which I knew...

The curtains were not yet drawn and with the moonlight spreading across the room, I could see clearly. I undressed and slipped a soft cotton gown over my naked body. I pulled the blanket off...

I was missing lectures leading up to an essay test, so I went downstairs & got my textbook & pretended to study, with Animal Planet playing in the background. Everyone we learned about was either...

Come the revolution, however, mesmerism was reconceived once more. From its beginnings many had seen it as an aristocratic fad: Mesmer (by this stage long gone to Germany and Switzerland) had made a fortune from...

Citizens of South Dakota should be proud of their courageous legislators for making history by being the first state to create a law that bans all surgical abortions without exception. American Life League salutes these...

Foreshadowings of the principles and even of the language of [the infinitesimal] calculus can be found in the writings of Napier, Kepler, Cavalieri, Fermat, Wallis, and Barrow. It was Newton’s good luck to come at...

Anybody can make history; only a great man can write it.

But technology is simply the making of things and the making of things can’t by its own nature be ugly or there would be no possibility for beauty in the arts, which also include the...

Amelia nodded her head, “That makes perfect sense.””No is doesn’t,” jeered Otto.”Yes, it does,” sighed Amelia. “Don’t you ever remember anything important?””Of course, I remember how many Star Trek seasons there were and when the...

When the British left, India was a multireligious, multiregional, multiethnic country, exploited, backward, and poor from colonialism.

When now we turn and look five miles above, there on the edge of town are five houses of prostitutes,—two of blacks and three of whites; and in one of the houses of the whites...

When history looks back I want people to know the Nazis weren’t able to kill millions of people and get away with it,

She had always assumed that her life would end inside the war, that the war itself would be her eternal present, as it was for Darrow and for her brother. The possibility of time going...

There is some history that I want not to have happened. I resist the consequences of being Nemesis.

History is written by the victors.

Disregard for the past will never do us any good. Without it we cannot know truly who we are.

Facts that have been forges into history first appear as incoherent text scribbled on aged paper. Only as we examine the whole of that which we know, can we surmise the elements of that which...

Rileggendo quelle poche frasi come sotto ipnosi, tardai ad accorgermi che la mia compagna virtuale aveva proiettato in un angolo del parabrezza la propria icona, cercando di attirare la mia attenzione in maniera il più...

Setiap orang tahu, bahwa pada umumnya gadis Jawa tidak diberitahu mengenai rencana perkawinan yang dibuat para pelindungnya untuknya. Dalam daerah Pasundan boleh jadi betul, bahwa anak perempuan dan anak muda yang bertunangan bisa saling mengenal,...

I thought about how stupid it is, that all of us are born destined to desire somebody else, though desire brings with it such disappointment and pain. Humankind’s history must be scored bloody with heartbreak....

I have seen nothing and nothing but death and destruction. Creation yes, but more death than birth. Mankind has learned nothing from their forefathers…their ancestors. It is true what they say, history does repeat itself,...

A nation which fails to adequately remember salient points ofits own history, is like a person with Alzheimer’s. And that can be asocial disease of a most destructive nature.

History shows that when the taxes of a nation approach about 20% of the people’s income, there begins to be a lack of respect for government. . . . When it reaches 25%, there comes...

The church and the scientific community are fighting at times a common enemy: the truth religion cannot deny and the positivist materialist scientist is unable to explain.

The kids coming in today have little to no recollection of it. That’s ancient history to them.

Christianity has thus passed through many stages of its earthly life, and yet has hardly reached the period of full manhood in Christ Jesus. During this long succession of centuries it has outlived the destruction...

I smelled war on the horizon, with more deaths and trouble to come” Bombing of the Twin TowersFrom Rape of a Nation by Sara Niles

I’m drawn to the 1950s for lots of reasons – everything from the fashion to the increasing sense of freedom and modernity that builds throughout the decade.

Siempre hay un rey sobre un caballoen las viejas ciudades;lo custodian las fuentes y los niñosy un insólito pájaro.Cuando los veo, pienso que la muertemira de las estatuasarmada hasta los dientes, con sus ojosde bronce...

History is full of blank spaces, but good stories, invariably, are not.