Quotes About History

She snags Gale, who's in a conversation with Plutarch, and spins him toward us. "Isn't he handsome?" Gale does look striking in the uniform, I guess. But the question just embarrasses us both, given our history. I'm trying to think of a witty comeback, when Boggs says brusquely, "Well, don't expect us to be too impressed. We just saw Finnick Odair in his underwear.

Pour l'instant nous sommes dans cette période bénie où chacun s'accorde à reconnaître que les horreurs récentes ne devraient jamais se répéter. Mais la mémoire collective est généralement de courte durée. Nous sommes des êtres versatiles, stupides, amnésiques et doués d'un immense talent d'autodestruction.

You can't take my past. You can't take my history.

Gale does look striking in the uniform, I guess. But the question just embarrasses us both, given our history. I'm trying to think of a witty comeback, when Boggs says brusquely, "Well, don't expect us to be too impressed. We just saw Finnick Odair in his underwear." I decide to go ahead and like Boggs.

She snags Gale, who's in a conversation with Plutarch, and spins him toward us. "Isn't he handsome?" Gale does look striking in the uniform, I guess. But the question just embarrasses us both, given our history. I'm trying to think of a witty comeback, when Boggs says brusquely, "Well, don't expect us to be too impressed. We just saw Finnick Odair in his underwear." I decide to go ahead and like Boggs.

tells of the history of Panem, the country that rose up out of the ashes of a place that was once called North America. He lists the disasters, the droughts, the storms, the fires, the encroaching seas that swallowed up so much of the land, the brutal war for what little sustenance remained.

I travel back in time, falling back into what I know for certain, the historical data I cling to in order to not go mad, not assume I made a suicidal and well-informed error in marrying this man.

Well, I think you should leave the past in the past. Things happened during the war that might not have happened any other time. You won't be doing anyone any favours digging up a load of trouble after all this time

some things are better left in the past. And true things are destined to repeat themselves.

He said that some things are better left in the past. And true things are destined to repeat themselves.

But I can't rewrite history. I can love only with what's left.

who are we without our pasts?

You can't rewrite history, undo the past, or predict the future.

Confederation Day every blessed year on December 12.

Afryko! Bóg musiaÅ' by? w zÅ'ym humorze, kiedy tworzyÅ' ten kontynent, jak inaczej wytÅ'umaczy? fakt zaludnienia tej ziemi populacjÄ… skazanÄ… na to, by zastÄ…piÅ'y jÄ… inne, przybywajÄ…ce ze Å›wiata rasy?

Sam Meksyk, w chwili przybycia Europejczyków w 1519 roku, mógÅ' mie? dwadzieÅ›cia pi?? milionów mieszkaÅ"ców. Pi??dziesiÄ…t lat pó?niej liczba ta spadÅ'a do dwóch milionów siedmiuset tysiÄ™cy.

W swoim przemówieniu kapitan Gordon Pim podkreÅ›liÅ', ?e zabijanie tubylców miaÅ'o charakter filantropijny - w masakrze, powiedziaÅ', jest coÅ› z miÅ'osierdzia, mercy in a massacre.

Europejczycy unicestwiaj? z okrucie?stwa i g?upoty.

Kiedy nadeszÅ'a pora deszczowa, patrole niemieckie odkryÅ'y ciaÅ'a le??ce wokóÅ' suchych jam gÅ'Ä™bokich na dwanaÅ›cie do szesnastu metrów. Wygrzebany zostaÅ'y przez Hererów próbujÄ…cych dokopa? siÄ™ do wody. Bezskutecznie. CaÅ'y naród - okoÅ'o siedemdziesiÄ™ciu tysiÄ™cy ludzi - zginÄ…Å' na pustyni. PozostaÅ'o jedynie kilka tysiÄ™cy skazanych na karnÄ… pracÄ™ w niemieckich obozach koncentracyjnych.

Najwa?niejszym celem podboju nie byÅ'o bynajmniej mordowanie ludnoÅ›ci ?ydowskiej, tak jak nie byÅ'o intencjÄ… osiedlajÄ…cych siÄ™ Amerykanów mordowanie Indian. Zamierzano poszerzy? przestrzeÅ" ?yciowÄ…. Rosyjscy Å»ydzi zamieszkiwali tereny, które Hitler wÅ'aÅ›nie planowaÅ' zdoby?.

Biurokracja niemiecka mówiÅ'a o "od?ydzeniu" (Entjudung) jako metodzie usuniÄ™cia "nadwy?ki konsumentów".

Oli yksinkertaisesti ymmärrettävä, että tie kulttuurin lopulliseen päämäärään kulki kaasukammioiden kautta

Too many Europeans interpreted military superiority as intellectual and even biological superiority.

This kind of nostalgia characterizes national and nationalist revivals all over the world, which engage in the antimodern myth-making of history by means of a return to national symbols and myths and, occasionally, through swapping conspiracy theories. Restorative nostalgia manifests itself in total reconstructions of monuments of the past, while reflective nostalgia lingers on ruins, the patina of time and history, in the dreams of another place and another time.