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More than any
time in history mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads
to despair and utter hopelessness, the other to total
extinction. Let us pray that we have the wisdom to choose
correctly.
-- Woody Allen
1935-, American Director,
Screenwriter, Actor, Comedian
Histories make
men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural
philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to
contend.
-- Francis Bacon
1561-1626, British
Philosopher, Essayist, Statesman
It is the true
office of history to represent the events themselves,
together with the counsels, and to leave the observations
and conclusions thereupon to the liberty and faculty of
every man's judgment.
-- Francis Bacon
1561-1626, British
Philosopher, Essayist, Statesman
To give an
accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a
far less brilliant pen than mine.
-- Sir Max Beerbohm
1872-1956, British Actor
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An account,
mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are
brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly
fools.
-- Ambrose Bierce
1842-1914, American Author,
Editor, Journalist, ''The Devil's Dictionary''
Historian. A
broad -- gauge gossip.
-- Ambrose Bierce
1842-1914, American Author,
Editor, Journalist, ''The Devil's Dictionary''
The main thing
is to make history, not to write it.
-- Otto Von Bismarck
1815-1898, Prussian
Statesman, Prime Minister
From the
heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte
1769-1821, French General,
Emperor
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