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History is the study of lies, anyway, because no witness ever recalls events with total accuracy, not even eyewitnesses.
History is the study of lies, anyway, because no witness ever recalls events with total accuracy, not even eyewitnesses.
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
The most acute social priority is for individuals to clean up their own mental and emotional messes. -Doc Childre.
The most acute social priority is for individuals to clean up their own mental and emotional messes. -Doc Childre.
I cried because I had no shoes, then I met a man who had no feet.
I cried because I had no shoes, then I met a man who had no feet.
God cannot alter the past, though historians can.
God cannot alter the past, though historians can.
Had Cleopatra's nose been shorter, the whole face of the world would have been different.
Had Cleopatra's nose been shorter, the whole face of the world would have been different.
History: An account, mostly false, of events unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools.
History: An account, mostly false, of events unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools.