Vainglory, however, no matter how much medieval Christianity insisted it was a sin, is a motor of mankind, no more eradicable than sex.

Isn't better to excel in your work than wasting time on fruitless things ... after all to become the history, you have to write it.

History is what we write, not what we remember. Why should we tarnish the memory of our planet by enshrining our less then noble deeds?

The dead outnumber the living fourteen to one, and we ignore the accumulated experience of such a huge majority of mankind at our peril

Mengejar kehidupan sendiri, sementara orang yang sudah dianggap sebagai keluarga berada dalam kesusahan, bukanlah cara orang Indonesia.

Occasionally a particular word or phrase in a letter or diary has sparked an entire plot - like an echo from history, still very alive.

Seorang komunis menginginkan dunia yang terdiri dari satu bangsa. Mereka menghapuskan nasionalisme untuk kepentingan internasionalisme.

These men seem not to know that poetry has its particular rules and precepts; and that history is governed by others directly opposite.

Aren't you two ever going to read Hogwarts, A History?""What's the point?" said Ron. "You know it by heart, we can just ask you.

I see now that the circumstances of one's birth are irrelevant. It is what you do with the gift of life that determines who you are.

It's subjunctive history. You know, the subjunctive? The mood used when something may or may not have happened. When it is imagined.

History, if it has taught us anything at all, has taught us that the strange ideas we deride today will one day be our celebrated truths.

History as well as life itself is complicated -- neither life nor history is an enterprise for those who seek simplicity and consistency.

It is then he realises that certain things loom larger than forgiveness and reconciliation: memory, for one, and history, bloody history.

James Tilly Matthews was not a prophet. He was a gifted, perhaps fragile individual who suffered intensely, and for little if any reward.