Washington once advised his adopted grandson that where there is no occasion for expressing an opinion, it is best to be silent. For there is nothing more certain than that it is at all times...

The philosopher cannot seriously put to himself questions that his civilization has not lived.

Indeed it is generally the case that men are readier to call rogues clever than simpletons honest, and are ashamed of being the second as they are proud of being the first.

If you put forth a small amount of effort, you just might find your next best friend for life is of a different race than your own.

When considering a candidate for office, almost right up until they enter the polling booth and sometimes even in the booth itself, most voters rely more on what they see and hear themselves in real...

Life & Deathenergy & Peaceif I stoped todayit was funEven the terrible pains that have burn me & scarred my soul it was worth it for having been allowed to walked where I’ve walked. Which...

The evolution of life, and the evolutionary origin of mankind, are scientifically established as firmly and completely as any historical event not witnessed by human observers. Any concession to anti-evolutionists, suggesting that there are scientific...

Snouck could speak of the region of Aceh, on the nnorthern tip of Sumatra, as ‘that country… that old pirate-state’, and the American traveller Eliza Scidmore of ‘ the brave, liberty-loving Achinese’. Within a decade...

Okupācija ir nenormāla situācija. Tās sekas vēl gadu desmitiem plosa atbrīvotās valsts cilvēkus, un “pareizie” vaino “nepareizos” piedzīvotajās nelaimēs un pastrādātajos noziegumos. […] Latvija vienu pec otras pārdzīvoja trīs okupācijas, kuru kopējais ilgums – piecdesmit...

A lot of faculty, but no one from the history department. And no students. Not one.

History is the essence of innumerable biographies.

If England had not used the services of privateers and pirates during its long struggle with Spain, there is some likelihood that people today in North America would be speaking Spanish rather than English.

Stone-cutters fighting time with marble, you fore defeated Challengers of oblivion Eat cynical earnings, knowing rock splits, records fall down, The square-limbed Roman letters Scale in the thaws, wear in the rain. The poet as...

Successful revolutions are those which end up by erasing all traces of themselves.

I have heard ballads of great battles, and poems about the beauty of a charge and the grace of a leader. But I did not know that war was nothing more than butchery, as savage...

It is quite rare for God to provide a great man at the necessary moment to carry out some great deep, which is why when this unusual combination of circumstance does occur, history at once...

An important part of deciding where we want to go, as a society and culture, is knowing where we have come from, and indeed, how far we have come.

History – An account mostly false, of events unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools.

They knew that to put God in the constitution was to put man out. They knew that the recognition of a Deity would be seized upon by fanatics and zealots as a pretext for destroying...

The only unreachable dream is the one you don’t reach for.

In the years since his murder, we have transformed King into a kind of innocuous black Santa Claus.

It will not do to investigate the subject of religion too closely, as it is apt to lead to infidelity.

An honest bookstore would post the following sign above its ‘self-help’ section: ‘For true self-help, please visit our philosophy, literature, history and science sections, find yourself a good book, read it, and think about it.

History chews up sexually uncertain boys, and spits us out as recycled, generic greeting cards for lonely old men.

There was so much about our past that I still didn’t understand, and I wasn’t one to tell the future. I could only tell the way the world worked. History was a tangled thing, people...

Etu Brute!

It takes a long time for people like Vorbis to die. They leave echoes in history.

He has proved himself one of the great Celtic managers, and his place in the history of the club is assured. He goes with our gratitude and best wishes.

Because you have no memory for things that happened ten or twenty years ago, you’re still mouthing the same nonsense as two thousand years ago. Worse, you cling with might and main to such absurdities...

Perhaps enlightenment, technology and secularism haven’t cleared Europe of the oldest science of all – the occult.

How do I define history? It’s just one fucking thing after another” – Rudge

Je pense, donc je suis…Descartes

I think that this is the first war in history that on the morrow the victors sued for peace and the vanquished called for unconditional surrender.

We were meant to survive because of our minds’ ability to reason, our ability to live with frustration in order to maintain our virtue. We wore smiling masks while dying inside.

It’s the same group of guys, mind you, that was the worst team in Penn State history.

We’re taking a valuable property with a well-regarded history on Kauai and redeveloping its purpose and potential, … The result will be a first-class resort of beauty and function offering an exceptional experience for vacationers...

Although the Civil War was an apocalyptic success in the sense that it brought an end to nearly a century of struggle and broken hopes regarding the ultimate extinction of African American slavery, it also...

To make the distinction unmistakably clear: Civilization is the vital force in human history; culture is that inert mass of institutions and organizations which accumulate around and tend to drag down the advance of life;...

Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.

We will look back on speech recognition software that became truly useful in the year 2000 as the real Y2K revolution.

This is the first time in the history of the school that a team has gone to the Final Four in back-to-back seasons. This team has set history. I can’t tell you how proud of...

Knowledge is just a strong belief shared internationally that can be changed at any moment.

In Santiago, the capital of the kingdom of Chile, at the moment of the great earthquake of 1647 in which many thousands lost their lives, a young Spaniard called Jeronimo Rugera was standing beside one...

My Japanese isn’t much better today, but at least now I appreciate my duality more than when I was a punk kid.

From the dawn of time, whenever humanity has wanted to know more, we have achieved it most effectively not by removing ourselves from the world to ponder and theorize, but rather by getting our hands...

The state is that great fiction by which everyone tries to live at the expense of everyone else.

History’s a bitch when you’re in the middle of it.

Bagaimanapun orang-orang yang punya dosa tidak akan berhasil. Mereka selalu jatuh ke dalam air – St. Petrus

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