"God alone knows the future, but only an historian can alter the past."

History, God, Future, Past, Knowledge

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"God alone knows the future, but only an historian can alter the past."

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"The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion."

Arthur C. Clarke, English Writer

History, Religion, Morality, Mankind

"There was something melancholic about that symbol of their nation's promise of freedom, a bell with a chipped mouth and cleft body."

E.A. Bucchianeri, American Author

History, Symbolism, Patriotism, Emotion

"The double-crossed, might-have-been history of my country is not the study of what actually took place here: it's the study of historians' studies. . . .Memories are their own descendants masquerading as the ancestors of the present."

David Mitchell, British Novelist

History, Memory, Study, Truth

"That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history."

Aldous Huxley, English Novelist

History, Men

"Those who stand for different causes during different generations often experience the same oppositions and the same difficulties as those of the previous and the next generations. That is the basis of history repeating itself."

Criss Jami, American Philosopher

History, Truth, Opposition, Change

"Super-eruption of mount Toba, 76,000 years ago had wiped out a previous great civilization on earth."

Toba Beta, Indonesian Author

History, Truth, Future, Wisdom

"Adolf Hitler! Ken, it makes me furious. Forty million people die to defeat that megalomaniac, and he's the star of the first broadcast to another civilization? He's representing us. And them. It's that madman's dream come true."

Carl Sagan, American Scientist

History, War, Hatred, Madness

"We're doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That's what it is to be alive. It's pretty dense kids who haven't figured that out by the time they're ten.... Most kids can't afford to go to Harvard and be misinformed."

Kurt Vonnegut, American Author

History, Past, Life, Repetition

"How nice -- to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive."

Kurt Vonnegut, American Author

History, War, Art, Protest, Power

"Nature is relic of pre-human civilizations."

Toba Beta, Indonesian Author

History, Nature, Power, Wisdom, Today

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"Prejudice is a vagrant opinion without visible means of support."

Society

"Prejudice - a vagrant opinion without visible means of support."

Opinion

"Painting n: the art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic."

Painting

"Bigot: One who is obstinately and zealously attached to an opinion that you do not entertain."

Opinion

"An egotist is a person of low taste - more interested in himself than in me."

Vanity

"Admiration: Our polite recognition of another man's resemblance to ourselves."

Humor

"Pray v: to ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy."

Prayer

"Revolution, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment."

Change

"All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher."

Mind

"Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent."

Time