#history

Like a lot of Irish households we read a lot of Irish history. It was almost Soviet, raising the next generation with a mythic view of their history. ↗

— Fiona Shaw

#generation #history #households #irish #like

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#experience #happens #history #history repeats itself #how

Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#hegel #history #learn #man #never

I wanted to make sure that the man who found the genie would not take terrible advantage of her, so he needed to be a person of integrity and honor - which is why I made the male lead an astronaut. The rest, as they say, is history. ↗

— Sidney Sheldon

#astronaut #found #genie #her #history

History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man. ↗

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

#cyclic #man #memories #poem #time

I must admit, maybe I am a piece of history after all. ↗

— Alan Shepard

#after #am #history #i #i am

You have to be there not for the fame and glory and recognition and being a page in a history book, but you have to be there because you believe your talent and ability can be applied effectively to operation of the spacecraft. ↗

— Alan Shepard

#applied #because #being #believe #book

Movie SF is, by definition, dumbed down - there have only been three or four SF movies in the history of film that aspire to the complexity of literary SF. ↗

— Dan Simmons

#been #complexity #definition #down #film

It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise. ↗

— Henry A. Kissinger

#could #end #fulfilling #greek #his

Most foreign policies that history has marked highly, in whatever country, have been originated by leaders who were opposed by experts. ↗

— Henry A. Kissinger

#country #experts #foreign #highly #history