“Nothing like being with people you’ve known almost your entire life. Having a shared history is something you just can’t create with the new ones. No matter how much you like that, it just isn’t the same.”— Jane Green, amazon.com
“It is a soft, forgiving culture. Only in the Philippines could a leader like Ferdinand Marcos, who pillaged his country for over 20 years, still be considered for a national burial. Insignificant amounts of the loot have been recovered, yet his wife and children were allowed to return and engage in…”— Lee Kuan Yew, philstar.com
“Throughout history, intellectual life has been marked by the fact that only a small number of people have done the serious thinking for everybody else.”— John Brockman, edge.org
“Although we usually think of technology as something unique to modern times, our ancestors began to create the first technologies millions of years ago in the form of prehistoric tools and weapons. Over time, eight key technologies gradually freed us from the limitations of our animal origins.”— Richard L. Currier, amazon.com
“You believe that solutions emerge from judicious study of discernible reality. That’s not the way the world really works anymore. We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you’re studying that reality (judiciously, as you will), we’ll act again, creating other realit…”— David Shields, amazon.com
“To redeem the past and to transform every 'It was' into an 'I wanted it thus!' – that alone do I call redemption!”— Friedrich Nietzsche, amazon.com
“It is entirely true and a fundamental fact of all history (though one we cannot explore further here) that the ultimate product of political activity frequently, indeed, as a matter of course, fails utterly to do justice to its original purpose and may even be a travesty of it.”— Max Weber, amazon.com
“Do not deny history. American culture is based on novelty, on difference; Europeans are not interested in new ways as much as they are interested in refining a concept which has existed through the centuries. It is a continuing evolution, not a revolution.”— Massimo Vignelli, amazon.com
“Action reveals itself fully only to the storyteller, that is, to the backward glance of the historian, who indeed always knows better what it was all about than the participants.”— Hannah Arendt, amazon.com
“Throughout history, intellectual life has been marked by the fact that only a small number of people have done the serious thinking for everybody else.”— John Brockman, edge.org