“ The weight of history swings on choices. To understand why people make the choices they do is to understand the whole of history and most of the future. Lance Conrad
“ But if the history of mankind was her own history, in a way she was thousands of years old. Jostein Gaarder
“ We are all of lifewho stepped from the seatrading weightless journeys of the currentsWe are all of lifewho build and tear down and build againto find gold and silverto find scars that weep and bleedto… Tamara Rendell
“ Any person who considers himself, and intends to remain, a member of Western society inherits the Western past from Athens and Jerusalem to Runnymede and Valley Forge, as well as to Watts and Chicago… Barbara W. Tuchman
“ And always we had wars, and more wars, and still other wars--all over Europe, all over the world. "Sometimes in the private interest of royal families," Satan said, "sometimes to crush a weak nation;… Mark Twain
