Peter Berger on History
October 20th, 2006The past is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets and re-explains what has happened.
- Peter Berger
The past is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets and re-explains what has happened.
- Peter Berger
Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.
- Salvador Dali
I got the bill for my surgery. Now I know what those doctors were wearing masks for.
- James H. Boren
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.
- Gail Godwin
There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time!
- Coco Chanel
What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.
- Albert Pike
Hell, there are no rules here - we’re trying to accomplish something.
- Thomas A. Edison
Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman’s truncheon over the anarchist’s bomb.
- Spiro T. Agnew
For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
- Jonathan Swift