Life histories tell you just about everything you need to know about an animal.
Writing your own quotes is like you started writing your history.
The only thing new in the world is the history you do not know.
There is no shame in not knowing your history, the shame lies in not finding out.
Christmas cut history in two ages, the Age of Promise, and the Age of Fulfillment.
History is written by the rich, and so the poor get blamed for everything.
History will remember you for your accomplishments, not for your ability.
Histories of morality are rarely written in order to inform the reader.
Capt. Malcolm Reynolds: Half of writing history is hiding the truth.
We are entitled to violate history, provided that it results in handsome offspring.
Going down in history is a dead end pursuit
Nothing is final in history. It always moves on. Peace must be built again and again.
Since the early beginning of history, India has been the Klondyke of the world
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Zeena Schreck believes that the right-hand path and the left-hand path have traditionally had the same end goal; it is only the method that is different and the fact that adepts on the lefthand path seek liberation in this life. --About Zeena Schreck...
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[M]an has been accustomed, ever since he was a boy, to having a dozen incompatible philosophies dancing about together inside his head. He doesn't think of doctrines as primarily "true" or "false," but as "academic" or "practical," "outworn" or "cont...
