"God alone knows the future, but only an historian can alter the past."

-- Ambrose Bierce

#Past Quotes #History Quotes #Historian Quotes

“Sold my soul to the devil, made a profit.”

Source : Song: Champions
“For-profit higher education is today a booming industry, feeding on the student loans handed out to the desperate.”

Source : John Summers, Chris Lehmann, Thomas Frank (2014). “No Future for You: Salvos from the Baffler”, p.13, MIT Press
“People laugh at me because I use big words. But if you have big ideas, you have to use big words to express them, haven't you?”
“The assets you want to buy are the ones people have to sell.”
“I liked Nixon fine, but Nixon was not a partier”
“When we must deal with problems, we instinctively resist trying the way that leads through obscurity and darkness. We wish to hear only of unequivocal results, and completely forget that these results can only be brought about when we have ventured into and emerged again from the darkness. But to penetrate the darkness we must summon all the powers of enlightenment that consciousness can offer.”
“Thinking has become a superfluous exercise... purely internal, without compelling force, more or less a game.”
“The stars which shone over Babylon and the stable in Bethlehem still shine as brightly over the Empire State Building and your front yard today.”

Source : Linda Goodman (1968). “Sun signs”

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