How can you be expected to govern a country that has 246 kinds of cheese?

How can you be expected to govern a country that has 246 kinds of cheese?

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

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.

Journalism allows its readers to witness history; fiction gives its readers an opportunity to live it.

Journalism allows its readers to witness history; fiction gives its readers an opportunity to live it.

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 past always looks better than it was because it isn't here.

The past always looks better than it was because it isn't here.

History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten.

History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten.

I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject, when it seemed read more

I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject, when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron scumbags devoid of any admirable human qualities. I failed history.

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.