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“In any case, Cide Hamete Benengeli was a very careful historian, and very accurate in all things, as can be clearly seen in the details he relates to us, for although they are trivial and inconsequ...”
“Darnley, who, like Banquo's ghost, seemed to play a much more effective part in Scottish politics once he was dead than when he was alive.”
“History gives us the facts, sort of, but from literary works we can learn what the past smelled like, sounded like, and felt like, the forgotten gritty details of a lost era. Literature brings us a...”
“The past is not another country; it is another life. The texture of daily living is different now than in the past, more different the further back we look, until we find people whose experiences c...”
“You might find it alarming to think that your doctor will not actually need to see you in person but might make a diagnosis based on the position of the stars, the colour and smell of your urine, a...”
“One should never underestimate the role of stupidity in history”
“A historian can never claim to have the last word on anything as he is limited by his sources and further so by his viewpoint.”
“Life and study have persuaded me of the openness of history. There is no inevitability in history. Thinking about what might have happened, what could have happened, is a necessary element in tryin...”
“Berners-Lee was supremely lucky in the work environment he had settled into, the Swiss particle physics lab CERN. It took him ten years to nurture his slow hunch about a hypertext information platf...”
“The prevailing taste of the public for anecdote has been censured and ridiculed by critics, who aspire to the character of superior wisdom: but if we consider it in a proper point of view, this tas...”
“By journey's end the brides were much better acquainted with their grooms and more or less pleased with the matches. Sybil Bingham wrote in her diary, thanking God for answering her prayer for fill...”
“Because the human history is the history of shoes. The history of places where we ever tread and stand.”
“Tesla, the vicar mused. Thats a foreign name, is it not? Hungarian,is it?Serbian, I corrected him. Im afraid the shire Teslas are ascant three centuries in these parts, having constructed Tesla Hal...”
“In the end the war was Hitler's war. It was not perhaps the war he wanted. But it was the war he was prepared to risk if he had to. Nothing could deter him...He was no longer prepared to wait on ev...”
“In political affairs illusions are usually the product of a failure to appreciate change; but such failure-usually a necessary and perhaps salutary part of human affairs-becomes, when the change is...”
“It is better to give your path to a dog than to be bitten by him, contesting for the right.”
“History is lived through and, for the fortunate, survived by people.”
“He who would confine his thought to present time will not understand present reality.”
“We perceive, as from a great distance, a thousand years filled with dim shapes of men moving blindly, performing strangely, in an unreal shadowy world.”
“Devise some creed, and live it, beyond theirs,Or I shall think you but their spendthrift heirs.”
