If it happens that the human race doesn't make it, then the fact that we were here once will not be altered, that once upon a time we peopled this astonishing blue planet, and wondered intelligently at everything about it and the other things who lived here with us on it, and that we celebrated the beauty of it in music and art, architecture, literature, and dance, and that there were times when we approached something godlike in our abilities and aspirations. We emerged out of depthless mystery, and back into mystery we returned,and in the end the mystery is all there is.
James Howard KunstlerTags: history spirituality apocalypse
We should use our imagination more than our memory.
Shimon PeresTags: imagination future progress history peace
There was something so heavy about the burden of history, of the past. I wasn't sure I had it in me to keep looking back.
Sarah DessenHis legend will be written down, eventually, by those who are troubled by it.
Patrick WhiteTags: history legends legacies
A ruling government can't afford to publish history
in a version which lessens its' chance for reelection.
Tags: history ruling-government approved version
[On Jason Mashak's book SALTY AS A LIP, as reviewed in The Prague Post:] Mashak amalgamates various national, historical and religious traditions into a myth-mash that illuminates many sects' fanatical compartmentalizing, and the fact that so many religions and philosophies share similar goals, if not roots.
Stephan DelbosTags: poetry history philosophy religion myth
Well, let's see. There's—of course in the great history of America there have been rulings that there's never going to be absolute consensus by every American, and there are those issues, again, like Roe v. Wade, where I believe are best held on a state level and addressed there. So, you know, going through the history of America, there would be others. But, um.
Sarah PalinTags: politics history stupidity united-states law equivocation palinisms katie-couric roe-v-wade scotus
Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.
Edward R. MurrowTags: history motivation
I'm a bad man. I need to understand the past. It illuminates the present.
Glen CookTags: history past-and-present
We need a new, deeper appreciation of the ethnic histories of the American people, not a reduction of American history to ethnic histories.
Steven C. RockefellerTags: history united-states history-of-the-united-states multiculturalism demographics-of-us ethnic-groups people-of-the-united-states syllabi
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