For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.
Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total; of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.
The great and abiding lesson of American history, particularly the cold war, is that the engine of capitalism, the individual, is mightier than any collective.
Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good.
It is my hope that as we commemorate Black History Month in the future, we will continue to celebrate the many achievements and rich culture of African-Americans.
It states, History should be regarded as a means for understanding the past and solving the challenges of the future. It also suggests that this celebration of the end of slavery is an important and enriching part of the history and heritage of the U...
There's a long history of anthropomorphic animals in Japanese literature. The so-called 'funny animal scrolls' were the first narratives in Japanese history, and the heroes of many folk tales have animals as their companions.
Witchcraft was hung, in History, But History and I Find all the Witchcraft that we need Around us, every Day -
I started reading the big histories and the small histories, the memoirs and so forth. At some point, I found the diary of William E. Dodd.
History is made by people. And the majority of people are arseholes. Which is I suppose why the majority of history has been so disastrous.
Tom Stall: Who's Joey? Carl Fogaty: You are. Tom Stall: My name's Tom, sir. Carl Fogaty: 'Course it is.
Danny Vinyard: [writing the beginning of the essay] People look at me and see my brother.
If the only significant history of human thought were to be written, it would have to be the history of its successive regrets and its impotences.
More than ever, we are dealing with the history of the masses, and no history of individuals. Less than ever, it is possible to predict the near future ...
I never studied, but I had the best teachers.
I haven't actually studied acting at all.
The Hawaiian language needs to be studied globally as a language of life.
I was studying for the SAT's and learning lines.
The facts are always frightening, and in all of us fear of the facts is constantly at work, constantly being fuelled; but this morbid fear must not lead us to conceal the facts and so to falsify the whole of human history -- which is of course part o...
The absence of romance in my history will, I fear, detract somewhat from its interest, but if it is judged worthy by those inquirers who desire an exact knowledge of the past as an aid to the understanding of the future, which in the course of human ...
Never before in history had societies thought that such a set of high expectations about marriage was either realistic or desirable. Although many Europeans and Americans found tremendous joy in building their relationships around these values, the a...
