#history

The southward advance of native African farmers with Central African crops halted in Natal, beyond which Central African crops couldn't grow - with enormous consequences for the recent history of South Africa. ↗

— Jared Diamond

#africa #african #beyond #central #consequences

Life moves fast. As much as you can learn from your history, you have to move forward. ↗

— Eddie Vedder

#forward #history #learn #life #move

The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world; it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#heaven #history #jerusalem #more #the history of

Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#attempt #become #beware #endeavoring #fearful

Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#history #life #nothing #read #theory

Assassination has never changed the history of the world. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#changed #history #never #the history of #world

We have a harder way to succeed in life as Serbs because of the past that we had and because of the history we had. ↗

— Novak Djokovic

#had #harder #history #life #past

The history of the Church of Rome is a constant leakage of members into such breakaway cults, which go on splitting. ↗

— Mary Douglas

#constant #cults #go #history #into

Tell the FBI that the kidnappers should pick out a judge that Nixon wants back. ↗

— William O. Douglas

#back #fbi #judge #nixon #out

The future has a way of arriving unannounced. ↗

— George Will

#arriving #future #way