Throughout history, great leaders have known the power of humor.
History is not reassuring on the subject of the longevity of seemingly lasting great nations, is it?
All the great crimes of history, lest we forget, have their genesis in the moral wilderness of their times.
The middle class, one of the great achievements in history, is becoming more of a relic than a reality.
It's just a great school and they have a history of developing big men. Georgetown is definitely a great option for me.
The study of history empowers nations and individuals with an ability to avoid errors of the past and lay foundations for victories in the future.
Writing your own qoutes is like you started writing your history.
History, writing, infect after a time a man's sense of himself...
Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it in summer school
Nero: I know your face from Earth's history.
My fascination with history is as much about the present as it is about the past.
The history doesn't repeat itself, it’s just their methods repeats. 27.06.11
Fulfilled desires, like pleasures (even of the intrinsic kind), are states of achievement rather than default states. For instance, one has to work at satiating oneself, while hunger comes naturally. After one has eaten or taken liquid, bowel and bla...
Man is timid and apologetic; he is no longer upright; he dares not say "I think," "I am," but quotes some saint or sage. He is ashamed before the blade of grass or the blowing rose. These roses under my window make no reference to former roses or to ...
Humans are often credited with having real foresight, in distinction to the rest of biology which does not. For example, Dawkins compares the 'blind watchmaker' of natural selection with the real human one. 'A true watchmaker has foresight: he design...
Nature is only terrible or squalid to those who do not understand her, and when misunderstanding has upset her balance. She is imbued above all with the power of love; by love she can after all be conquered, but in no other way. That has not been our...
Nature offers us a thousand simple pleasers- Plays of light and color, fragrance in the air, the sun's warmth on skin and muscle, the audible rhythm of life's stir and push- for the price of merely paying attention. What joy! But how unwilling or una...
We can act to deal with the consequences of the earthquake and tsunami, but the disaster was only faintly political in the economics and indifference...the relief will be very political, in who gives how much (Bush offering 15 million, then 35 millio...
Nature is subtle and complex.
Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality.
Nature evaluates a character on the basis of its merits, not demerits.