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If the house is to be set in the order, one cannot begin with the present; he must begin with the past
It is striking how history, when resting on the memory of men, always touches the bounds of mythology.
Women throughout history have had to defy rigid conventions about what is and is not expected of them.
They must attack us in order to survive, just as we must destroy them to advance our historic mission.
Men are so stupid and concerned with their present needs, they will always let themselves be deceived.
A wise ruler should rely on what is under his own control, not on what is under the control of others.
He who neglects what is done for what ought to be done, sooner effects his ruin than his preservation.
So long as the great majority of men are not deprived of either property or honor, they are satisfied.
In essence, the tragedy of the Warsaw Rising resulted from a systemic breakdown of the Grand Alliance.
It's our vanity that makes us think that what forms part of our world today must be stable and secure.
I am working on a book urging the beating to death of baby whales using the dead bodies of baby seals.
Those who have experienced good and bad luck many times have every reason to be skeptical of successes
In generosity we are equally singular, acquiring our friends by conferring, not by receiving, favours.
I don't believe that one should have one-size-fits-all moral rules for international political action.
If the unemployed could eat plans and promises, they would be able to spend the winter on the Riviera.
I am one who tells the truth and exposes evil and seeks with Beauty for Beauty to set the world right.
The most durable monument of human labor is that which recalls the wretchedness and nothingness of man.
In my library/study/barn, there is a Ping-Pong table on which I can pile working books and spread maps.
The immense cities lie basking on the beaches of the continent like whales that have taken to the land.
Christians and Muslims share the belief that they are the fortunate recipient of the final God message.
It is advertising and the logic of consumerism that governs the depiction of reality in the mass media.
Nothing in the constitutions of Western states requires them to get involved in every foreign conflict.
Maps of Time attempts to assemble a coherent and accessible account of origins, a modern creation myth.
The frequent repetition of miracles serves to provoke, where it does not subdue, the reason of mankind.
Does there exist a single instance of a saint asserting that he himself possessed the gift of miracles?
Ever since I was a young man, I wanted to run for the presidency in the worst possible way - and I did.
History is a tangled skein that one may take up at any point, and break when one has unravelled enough.
Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them.
Pessimism becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy; it reproduces itself by crippling our willingness to act.
Democracy depends on people speaking out, and in times of great crisis, on people creating a commotion.
Curiosity is idle only to those who fail to realize that it may be a very rare and indispensable thing.
We find it hard to believe that other people's thoughts are as silly as our own, but they probably are.
The title of hero is bestowed by the survivors upon the fallen, who themselves know nothing of heroism.
The strength of the church is not the strength of its institutions but the authenticity of its witness.
The timelessness of art is its capacity to represent the transformation of endless becoming into being.
There can never be a single, satisfactory comprehensive account of the 'history of the British empire.'
Many difficulties which nature throws in our way, may be smoothed away by the exercise of intelligence.
The populace is like the sea motionless in itself, but stirred by every wind, even the lightest breeze.
In matters pertaining to the care of life there has been no marked gain over Greek and Roman antiquity.
Not to be pompous about it - my thing in life is to write history and not to chat on TV 24 hours a day.
[I wanted] to play the clarinet well so I could be in Duke Ellington's band, but that's now impossible.
I want to look beyond the legends, to find the real story of Scotland. And it's every bit as thrilling.
Bulgaria was the only Axis country to deflect insistent German demands for the deportation of its Jews.
I happen to belong to that group opinion which holds the break-up of the United Kingdom to be imminent.
Exploration belongs to the Renaissance, travel to the bourgeois age, tourism to our proletarian moment.
Love of power, operating through greed and through personal ambition, was the cause of all these evils.
What made the war inevitable was the growth of Athenian power and the fear which this caused in Sparta.
I am an earnest advocate of manual training and trade teaching for black boys, and for white boys, too.
No life goes past so swiftly as an eventless one, no clock spins like a clock whose days are all alike.
NARA must provide security at our facilities to protect our public patrons, our staff, and our holdings.