History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies. – Alexis de Tocqueville, 1856 Category: History
It is striking how history, when resting on the memory of men, always touches the bounds of mythology. – Leopold von Ranke, History of the Popes Category: History
To be converted you have to destroy your past, destroy your history. You have to stamp on it, you have to say my ancestral culture does not exist, it doesnt matter. – V. S. Naipaul Category: History
The simplest explanation is that it doesnt make sense. – Professor William Buechner Category: Understanding
I wanted to have the opportunity to travel to Vietnam and Sydney, and have the chance to work there. – Brendan Fraser Category: Travel
Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition – in having put forth the best within you. – Henry J. Kaiser Category: best