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“War means fighting. The business of the soldier is to fight. Armies are not called out to dig trenches, to throw up breastworks, to live in camps, but to find the enemy and strike him; to invade hi...”
“As individuals express their life, so they are.”
“This only is denied to God: the power to undo the past.”
“[On Jason Mashak's book SALTY AS A LIP, as reviewed in The Prague Post:] Mashak amalgamates various national, historical and religious traditions into a myth-mash that illuminates many sects' fanat...”
“One of the main purposes of university education is to escape from the Zeitgeist, from the mean, narrow, provincial spirit which is constantly assuring us that we are at the peak of human achieveme...”
“History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.”
“My choice of Muhammad to lead the list of the world's most influential persons may surprise some readers and may be questioned by others, but he was the only man in history who was supremely succes...”
“Its hard to throw away history. It was like you were throwing away a part of yourself.”
“Those who understand history are condemned to watch other idiots repeat it.”
“Never trust the translation or interpretation of something without first trusting its interpreter.”
“History was a series of decisions about what to tell and a series of accidents about what survived after telling. Not truth, but a historian could search for truth, and the search was as worthy as ...”
“The truth is usually left for us to hunt and gather independently, if we are so inclined.”
“If history is to be creative, to anticipate a possible future without denying the past, it should, I believe, emphasize new possibilities by disclosing those hidden episodes of the past when, even ...”
“History isn't like that. History unravels gently, like an old sweater. It has been patched and darned many times, reknitted to suit different people, shoved in a box under the sink of censorship to...”
“Were not eight kingdoms, but an entire land with one heartbeat. Its why people like you and I need to record our peoples stories so we can find those moments when our paths cross, and only then wil...”
“It's not pretty, but it's veracious.”
“If history is written by the victorious, what if the victors lied?”
“It is not history. But I am beginning to wonder strongly what is the nature of history. Is it only memory in decent sentences, and if so, how reliable is it? I would suggest, not very. And that the...”
“He was Caesar and Pope in one; but he was Pope without Pope's pretensions, Caesar without the legions of Caesar: without a standing army, without a bodyguard, without a palace, without a fixed reve...”
“The whole of world history often seems to me nothing more than a picture book which portrays humanity's most powerful and a senseless desire - the desire to forget. Does not each generation, by mea...”
