History loved to lie, through simple distortion or complete fabrication. Lies were the cosmetics of history, and when history could not be beautiful, it preferred to be shocking.

Will history remember us, I wonder? I do hope so - to imagine that one might do something, touch an event somehow, & thereby transcend the bounds of a single human lifetime!

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.

Amerika hanya suka padamu bila engkau berada pada pihak yang dipilihnya. Kalau engkau tidak sepenuhnya sejalan dengan dia, engkau secara otomatis dimasukan dalam blok Uni Sovyet.

This new consensus seemed so compelling that Ernst Mayr, the dean of modern Darwinians, opened the ashcan of history for a deposit of Geoffrey's ideas about anatomical unity.

It is indeed the duty of historians to stress the contrast betweenthe standards of the past and the standards of the present. Somefulfil that duty on purpose, others by accident.

Sudah menjadi sifat manusia untuk meludahi lawan yang lemah,. Tetapi bila kita menghadapi lawan yang kuat, setidak-tidaknya kita merasa bahwa dia merupakan lawan kita yang pantas.

To understand history,' Chacko said, 'we have to go inside and listen to what they're saying. And look at the books and the pictures on the wall. And smell the smells.

My hobbies include urinating in empty apple juice bottles and then pouring the contents into kitty litter and trying to get the clumps to form shapes of historical figures.


The sense that everything is going wrong has existed in every era, and rightly so since men have found no greater pleasure than in inventing new ways to make each other miserable.

Hate often separates those who ought to aid one another, since they are tending toward the same goal, and sympathy binds men together who are forced to do battle with one another.

This side of the Kingdom of God upon Earth, it is a melancholy human fact that those who beat their swords into plowshares end up doing the plowing for those who kept their swords.

Aku mengerti bagaimana kecintaanmu kepada tanah air. Aku menghargai semangatmu itu. Tapi hanya itu yang kaoian miliki. Kalian juga perlu taktik yang bijaksana dan otak yang dingin.

I remembered the dim winter light, the smell of damp earth and leaves, the eeriness that always attaches to a place once settled and civilized, but now reclaimed by the wilderness.

A new doctor had been sent for, Lazzaro of Pavia, who had administered to Lorenzo a pulverized mixture of diamonds and pearls. This hitherto infallible medicine had failed to help.