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.

The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down.

The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down.

Assassinations has never changed the history of the world.

Assassinations has never changed the history of the world.

The lessons of history? There are four: The bee fertilizes the flower it robs; whom the gods would destroy they read more

The lessons of history? There are four: The bee fertilizes the flower it robs; whom the gods would destroy they first make mad with power; the mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceeding small; when it is dark enough, you can see the stars.

The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.

The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.

Last year I was diagnosed with osteoporosis. I was over 50, Caucasian, thin, small-framed, and I have it in my read more

Last year I was diagnosed with osteoporosis. I was over 50, Caucasian, thin, small-framed, and I have it in my genetic history. It was almost a slam-dunk.

There are no extraordinary men... just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with.

There are no extraordinary men... just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with.

While history never repeats itself, political patterns do.

While history never repeats itself, political patterns do.

It is not the literal past, the "facts" of history, that shape us, but images of the past embodied in read more

It is not the literal past, the "facts" of history, that shape us, but images of the past embodied in language.