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My aim was to dismantle this false history that men created punk, because they didn't. And they were certainly never the best at it.
Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects.
It sure is a nice feeling to know that people will remember you after you're gone, that you'll manage to be a little bit of history.
The funny thing about history is that we imagine that people didn't laugh in the old days, but of course they did, at stupid things.
But there are advantages to being elected President. The day after I was elected, I had my high school grades classified Top Secret.
You may write me down in history with your bitter, twisted lines. You may trod me in the very dirt, but still, like dust, I'll rise.
Only those are fit to live who do not fear to die and none are fit to die who have shrunk from the joy of life and the duty of life.
Truth, naked, unblushing truth, the first virtue of all serious history, must be the sole recommendation of this personal narrative.
Take everything you know. Take your whole selves. Be inclusive. Be open. Make history in the infinite ways that your heart takes you.
The aim of the historian, like that of the artist, is to enlarge our picture of the world, to give us a new way of looking at things.
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: 'President Can't Swim.'
I feel very honoured to be joining the Ferrari family and becoming a part of the most prestigious team in the history of Formula One.
Strangers are exciting, their mystery never ends. But, there's nothing like looking at your own history in the faces of your friends.
Peace, plenty, and contentment reign throughout our borders, and our beloved country presents a sublime moral spectacle to the world.
Deep Purple is a damn good band and we've made a niche in rock 'n' roll history. Maybe not a huge one but enough to be very proud of.
We have no butter... but I ask you, would you rather have butter or guns? Preparedness makes us powerful. Butter merely makes us fat.
If the enemies of the SA are hoping that the SA will not return from leave, we are ready to let them enjoy the hope for a short time.
The difficulty with humorists is that they will mix what they believe with what they don't; whichever seems likelier to win an effect.
Dad, I'm in some trouble. There's been an accident and you're going to hear all sorts of things about me from now on. Terrible things.
Dead, we become the lumber of the world, And to that mass of matter shall be swept Where things destroyed with things unborn are kept.
Perhaps the most important lesson of the New Social Historians is that history belongs to those about whom or whose documents survive.
The brutal history of colonialism is one in which white people literally stole land and people for their own gain and material wealth.
Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.
American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.
In a typical history book, black Americans are mentioned in the context of slavery or civil rights. There's so much more to the story.
History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.
Since when have we Americans been expected to bow submissively to authority and speak with awe and reverence to those who represent us?
The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with discretion.
To be matter-of-fact about the world is to blunder into fantasy - and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful.
We're not going to let anything get in our way of hitting our milestones and making history and showing the world that Hyperloop works.
Posterity! You will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a good use of it.
We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we make today.
They died hard, those savage men - like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them.
The reverence for the Scriptures is an element of civilization, for thus has the history of the world been preserved, and is preserved.
The impartiality of history is not that of the mirror, which merely reflects objects, but of the judge, who sees, listens, and decides.
History, in a democratic age, tends to become a series of popular apologies, and is inclined to assume that the people can do no wrong.
It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have been forged in controversies involving not very nice people.
The historian has before him a jigsaw puzzle from which many pieces have disappeared. These gaps can be filled only by his imagination.
Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.
History never looks like history when you are living through it. It always looks confusing and messy, and it always feels uncomfortable.
And now it seems she's on my wavelength. That's all I need. My mind isn't much of a comfort to me but at least I thought it was private.
In the Confederate Army, an officer was judged by stark courage alone, and this made it possible for the Confederacy to live four years.
I, indeed, following the true law of history, have never set down any fact that I have not learned from trustworthy speakers or writers.
historical research of the truly scholastic kind is not connected with human beings at all. It is a pure study, like higher mathematics.
In the old times, women did not get their lives written, though I don't doubt many of them were much better worth writing than the men's.
Confederate monuments belong in museums where we can study and reflect on that terrible history, not in places of honor across our state.
Postmodernism entices us with the siren call of liberation and creativity, but it may be an invitation to intellectual and moral suicide.
history, like nature, has its own economy, its own balancing of forces in the final accounting. Nothing can be lost, except to awareness.
He who has money, lives long: he who has authority, can do no wrong: he who has might, establishes right. Such is history! Ecce historia!