The supreme, the merciless, the destroyer of opposition, the exalted King, the shepherd, the protector of the quarters of the world, the King the word of whose mouth destroys mountains and seas, who by his lordly attack has forced mighty and merciless Kings from the rising of the sun to the setting of the same to acknowledge one supremacy.
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What is history but a fable agreed upon?
What is history but a fable agreed upon?
The multitude of fools is a protection to the wise.
The multitude of fools is a protection to the wise.
It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
I saw Chungking for the first time more than 40 years ago - a city of hills and mists, of read more
I saw Chungking for the first time more than 40 years ago - a city of hills and mists, of grays and lavenders, two rivers shaping it to a point and the cliff rising above me like a challenge.
And history with all her volumes vast,
Hath but one page.
And history with all her volumes vast,
Hath but one page.
Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics.
Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics.
It's incredible to have been part of fashion history - my whole career has been one big highlight.
It's incredible to have been part of fashion history - my whole career has been one big highlight.
I have read somewhere or other, in Dionysius of Halicarnassus, I
think, that history is philosophy teaching by examples.
I have read somewhere or other, in Dionysius of Halicarnassus, I
think, that history is philosophy teaching by examples.
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.
