#history

According to the official version of history, CIA aid to the Mujahadeen began during 1980, that is to say, after the Soviet army invaded Afghanistan, 24 Dec 1979. ↗

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

#afghanistan #after #aid #army #began

We have actually experienced in recent months a dramatic demonstration of an unprecedented intelligence failure, perhaps the most significant intelligence failure in the history of the United States. ↗

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

#demonstration #dramatic #experienced #failure #history

Cause and effect, the riddle of all history, is a particular devil in financial history; and never more so than today, where entire classes of security are collapsing not on public exchanges and stock-tickers but because there are no markets to establish prices this side of nothing. ↗

— James Buchan

#cause #classes #collapsing #devil #effect

The truth is, of course, that history is not completed in modern commerce any more than philosophy is perfected in political economy. In other words, there is nothing timeless or God-given about filling stations and penicillin and plastic bags. ↗

— James Buchan

#any #bags #commerce #completed #course

Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#history #know #repeat #those #who

Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of the defining impression of our being. ↗

— Ken Burns

#being #defining #deprive #good #history

I think we ought to all take a step back and remember where we were 24, 48 hours ago, a week ago, two weeks ago - the prospect that was hanging out there that America would not honor its obligations for the first time in its history, and the impact that would have on our economy and the global economy. ↗

— Jay Carney

#america #back #economy #first #first time

History keeps her secrets longer than most of us. But she has one secret that I will reveal to you tonight in the greatest confidence. Sometimes there are no winners at all. And sometimes nobody needs to lose. ↗

— John le Carre

#confidence #greatest #her #history #i

This is a Disney animated feature; it's eternal, it's history. What's there to think about' ↗

— Tia Carrere

#animated #disney #eternal #feature #history

Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms. ↗

— Angela Carter

#book #bring #experience #history #like