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A land without ruins is a land without memories--a land without memories is a land without history.
A land without ruins is a land without memories--a land without memories is a land without history.
Despise the enemy strategically, but take him seriously tactically.
Despise the enemy strategically, but take him seriously tactically.
Histories are as perfect as the Historian is wise, and is gifted
with an eye and a soul.
Histories are as perfect as the Historian is wise, and is gifted
with an eye and a soul.
The dignity of history.
The dignity of history.
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it
A man can be a hero if he is a scientist, or a soldier, or a drug addict, or a read more
A man can be a hero if he is a scientist, or a soldier, or a drug addict, or a disc jockey, or a crummy mediocre politician. A man can be a hero because he suffers and despairs; or because he thinks logically and analytically; or because he is "sensitive;" or because he is cruel. Wealth establishes a man as a hero, and so does poverty. Virtually any circumstance in a man's life will make him a hero to some group of people and has a mythic rendering in the culture -- in literature, art, theater, or the daily newspapers.
Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have read more
Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Workingmen of all countries, unite!
The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and read more
The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they
have exhausted all other alternatives.
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they
have exhausted all other alternatives.
