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More than any time in history mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness, the other to total extinction. Let us pray that we have the wisdom to choose correctly.
Allen, Woody

It is the true office of history to represent the events themselves, together with the counsels, and to leave the observations and conclusions thereupon to the liberty and faculty of every man's judgment.
Bacon, Francis

Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
Bacon, Francis

To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine.
Beerbohm, Sir Max

An account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.
Bierce, Ambrose

Historian. A broad -- gauge gossip.
Bierce, Ambrose

The main thing is to make history, not to write it.
Bismarck, Otto Von

From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us.
Bonaparte, Napoleon

People will not look forward to posterity who will not look backward to their ancestors.
Burke, Edmund

The Thames is liquid history.
Burns, John

God cannot alter the past, but historians can.
Butler, Samuel

History is the devil's scripture.
Byron, Lord

And having wisdom with each studious year, in meditation dwelt, with learning wrought, and shaped his weapon with an edge severe, sapping a solemn creed with solemn sneer.
Byron, Lord

More than any time in history mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness, the other to total extinction. Let us pray that we have the wisdom to choose correctly.
Allen, Woody

It is the true office of history to represent the events themselves, together with the counsels, and to leave the observations and conclusions thereupon to the liberty and faculty of every man's judgment.
Bacon, Francis

Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
Bacon, Francis

To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine.
Beerbohm, Sir Max

An account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.
Bierce, Ambrose

Historian. A broad -- gauge gossip.
Bierce, Ambrose

The main thing is to make history, not to write it.
Bismarck, Otto Von

From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us.
Bonaparte, Napoleon

People will not look forward to posterity who will not look backward to their ancestors.
Burke, Edmund

The Thames is liquid history.
Burns, John

God cannot alter the past, but historians can.
Butler, Samuel

History is the devil's scripture.
Byron, Lord

And having wisdom with each studious year, in meditation dwelt, with learning wrought, and shaped his weapon with an edge severe, sapping a solemn creed with solemn sneer.
Byron, Lord


Good bye, proud world! I’m going home, Thou art not my friend, I am not thine.
Ralph Waldo Emerson







Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.”

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