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“Being on the right side of history is actually very simple: Be a libertarian, keep the morality of being good and fair to everyone above your religious and political beliefs, and always be on the side of science!”
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“Arguably, it is a possibility, not a certainty, that makes history fascinating.”
― Slavic Ancient Origins: Stories Of People & Civilization
― Slavic Ancient Origins: Stories Of People & Civilization
“We are not mere witnesses to history but its living pulse!
What unfolds does not simply cross our path; it moves because of us, shaped by our very existence.”
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What unfolds does not simply cross our path; it moves because of us, shaped by our very existence.”
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“Before the end of the day there will take place what became known as the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral … All Ike Clanton needed, and had really been seeking all morning, was an audience. He launched into a soliloquy: “You fellows haven’t given me any show at all. You’ve treated me like a dog. Fight is my racket, and all I want is four feet of ground. If you fellows had been a second later, I would have furnished a coroner’s inquest for the town. I will get even with all of you for this. If I had a six-shooter now, I would make a fight with all of you.”
― Tombstone: The Earp Brothers, Doc Holliday, and the Vendetta Ride from Hell
― Tombstone: The Earp Brothers, Doc Holliday, and the Vendetta Ride from Hell
“Keep rowing the boat away from the shore down a stream less traveled before,
Knowing a black hole pulls into its mystery, Where nothing familiar survives in its history.”
― Collywobbles
Knowing a black hole pulls into its mystery, Where nothing familiar survives in its history.”
― Collywobbles
“Hoʻokahi o kuʻu noi i ka poʻe: e mālama i ko lākou moʻolelo, ma kahi e mau ai...nā moʻopuna aku ana, nā kualua, a makemake nā moʻopuna, e lohe i ko kākou leo.
I have only one favor to ask of people: to take care of their stories, let them be kept in a permanent place...so that their grandchildren and great-grandchildren can come and hear our voices.”
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I have only one favor to ask of people: to take care of their stories, let them be kept in a permanent place...so that their grandchildren and great-grandchildren can come and hear our voices.”
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“Englishman, although you have conquered the French, you have not yet conquered us! We are not your slaves. These lakes, these woods and mountains, were left to us by our ancestors. They are our inheritance; and we will part with them to none.”
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“History is a mirror reflecting human triumphs and mistakes. By studying it, we gain insights into societal patterns, the consequences of decisions, and lessons for the future. Awareness of the past empowers wiser choices today.”
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“The Freedom of Kenya wasn’t won by one tribe, yet some keep editing the script for profit. Until we unlearn that myth, compensation will always fund a falsehood.”
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“History claims the front page, but not everyone makes it to the print.”
― History That Rattles: The Strange, Surprising and True History of Survival
― History That Rattles: The Strange, Surprising and True History of Survival
“In the moments that make history, people fade from memory.”
― History That Rattles: The Strange, Surprising and True History of Survival
― History That Rattles: The Strange, Surprising and True History of Survival
“When medicine serves ideology, things get weird.”
― History That Rattles: The Strange, Surprising and True History of Survival
― History That Rattles: The Strange, Surprising and True History of Survival
“History remembers the victors, but it’s shaped by those who simply happened to survive.”
― History That Rattles: The Strange, Surprising and True History of Survival
― History That Rattles: The Strange, Surprising and True History of Survival
“It sounds absurd, but hang on. History has a soft spot for the unlikely.”
― History That Rattles: The Strange, Surprising and True History of Survival
― History That Rattles: The Strange, Surprising and True History of Survival
“In the Middle Ages, the default debt relief method was not printing money, but burning your bankers at the stake.
Modern society has evolved slightly. We no longer torture or incinerate anyone.
We just… keep borrowing.
Which is admittedly a little more humane.”
― History That Rattles: The Strange, Surprising and True History of Survival
Modern society has evolved slightly. We no longer torture or incinerate anyone.
We just… keep borrowing.
Which is admittedly a little more humane.”
― History That Rattles: The Strange, Surprising and True History of Survival
“In the end, history doesn’t sit there like a fossil, waiting for us to dust it off. It’s more like a mirror — and the angle of the glass changes with whoever is holding it.”
― History That Rattles: The Strange, Surprising and True History of Survival
― History That Rattles: The Strange, Surprising and True History of Survival
“The danger lies not in misunderstanding what happened, but in mistaking our own reflection for the truth.”
― History That Rattles: The Strange, Surprising and True History of Survival
― History That Rattles: The Strange, Surprising and True History of Survival
“History isn’t just what happened — it’s what we believe happened, and those beliefs have the stubborn habit of marching forward with us.”
― History That Rattles: The Strange, Surprising and True History of Survival
― History That Rattles: The Strange, Surprising and True History of Survival
“Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of the men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.”
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“Let his musings be recorded, he thought. The historitors’ purpose was the truth. Too often now, the members of the Logos censored themselves.”
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“Immortality does not grant life.
It sentences you to watch everything you loved become history.”
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It sentences you to watch everything you loved become history.”
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“It is true that even across the Himalayan barrier India has sent to the west, such gifts as grammar and logic, philosophy and fables, hypnotism and chess, and above all numerals and the decimal system.”
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