Human history
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.', H.G. Wells',
Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.', George Bernard Shaw', Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950)
There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains. the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.', Bette Davis, The Lonely Life, 1962', US movie actress (1908 - 1989)
To sit alone with my conscience will be judgment enough for me.', Charles William Stubbs',
Courtly love-poetry may first have been written during long periods of abstinence on the Crusades, but it would not have flourished in the cold of northern Europe without some help from the chimney.', James Burke',
Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right.', Arthur Schopenhauer', German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.', George Bernard Shaw', Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950)
There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains. the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.', Bette Davis, The Lonely Life, 1962', US movie actress (1908 - 1989)
To sit alone with my conscience will be judgment enough for me.', Charles William Stubbs',
Courtly love-poetry may first have been written during long periods of abstinence on the Crusades, but it would not have flourished in the cold of northern Europe without some help from the chimney.', James Burke',
Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right.', Arthur Schopenhauer', German philosopher (1788 - 1860)