Anything the Austrians could do, the Prussians could do better.
Timothy C.W. BlanningTags: history
War is sometimes described as long periods of boredom punctuated by short moments of excitement. History is often similar, if rather safer.
John H. ArnoldTags: history
Now if a man thus favoured died as he has lived, he will be just the one you are looking for: the only sort of person who deserves to be called happy. But mark this: until he is dead, keep the word "happy" in reserve. Till then, he is not happy, but only lucky...
HerodotusTags: life history death happy lucky herodotus
Clio, the muse of history, is as thoroughly infected with lies as a street whore with syphilis.
Arthur SchopenhauerTags: history
I don't think humanity just replays history, but we are the same people our ancestors were, and our descendants are going to face a lot of the same situations we do. It's instructive to imagine how they would react, with different technologies on different worlds. That's why I write science fiction -- even though the term 'science fiction' excites disdain in certain persons.
Kage BakerTags: history science-fiction genre sf past-and-future human-experience past-and-present
If I had known they were going to do this, I would have become a shoemaker.
Albert EinsteinTags: history war guilt destruction
Every time we killed a thousand Bugs at a cost of one M.I. it was a net victory for the Bugs. We were learning, expensively, just how efficient a total communism can be when used by a people actually adapted to it by evolution; the Bug commisars didn't care any more about expending soldiers than we cared about expending ammo. Perhaps we could have figured this out about the Bugs by noting the grief the Chinese Hegemony gave the Russo-Anglo-American Alliance; however the trouble with 'lessons from history' is that we usually read them best after falling flat on our chins.
Robert A. HeinleinTags: history war heinlein communisim starship-troopers
So a dog's value came from the training AND the breeding. And by breeding, Edgar supposed he meant both the bloodlines - the particular dogs in their ancestry - and all the information in the file cabinets. Because the files, with their photographs, measurements, notes, charts, cross-references, and scores, told the STORY of the dog - what a MEANT as his father put it.
David WroblewskiTags: animals history dogs ancestry breeding
...the dreamlike, bombastic wish to stand once again at that point in my life and be able to take a completely different direction than the one that has made me who I am now... To sit once more on the warm moss and hold the cap - it's the absurd wish to go back behind myself in time and take myself - the only marked by events - along on this journey.
Pascal MercierA generation which ignores history has no past — and no future.
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