It may seem unfashionable to say so, but historians should seize the imagination as well as the intellect. History is, in a sense, a story, a narrative of adventure and of vision, of character and of incident. It is also a portrait of the great general drama of the human spirit.


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Twisting lemons into lemonade.
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We must realistically accept that revolution is a social war, not because we like war, but because w...
PETER GELDERLOOS
By the way, if you get mad at your Mac laptop and wonder who designed this demonic device, notice th...
PETER KREEFT
There is a pain you can’t think your way out of. You can’t talk it away. If there was someone to...
PETER HELLER
I imagine hell like this: Italian punctuality, German humour and English wine.
PETER USTINOV
We sinned for no reason but an incomprehensible lack of love, and He saved us for no reason but an i...
PETER KREEFT
We rehearse for the big death through the little death of orgasm, through erotic living. Death as tr...
PETER REDGROVE
If I told you what it takes to reach the highest high you'd laugh and say nothing that simple, but y...
PETER TOWNSEND
The trouble is if you don’t spend your life yourself, other people spend it for you.
PETER SHAFFER
That was when it was all made painfully clear to me. When you are a child, there is joy. There is la...
PETER DAVID
Elke webpagina van de site heeft een uithangbord waaraan de bezoeker herkent waar hij terecht is gek...
PETER KASSENAAR
The world has enough women who know how to be smart. It needs women who are willing to be simple. Th...
PETER MARSHALL
Is it possible to love so desperately that life is unbearable? I don't mean unrequited, I mean being...
PETER HELLER
Paradoxically one of the greatest advantages of mind maps is that they are seldom needed again. The ...
PETER RUSSELL
Anyone who lives in this time is concerned with grottiness.
PETER READING
The value of action is that we make mistakes; mistakes show us what we need to learn.
PETER MCWILLIAMS
To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.
PETER MCWILLIAMS
The better a man is the more mistakes he will make for the more things he will try.
PETER DRUCKER
Prayer puts you in touch with the infinite and prepares your mind for the finite.
PETER DANIEL
Parents are the bones on which children sharpen their teeth.
PETER USTINOV
The road to positivity is strewn with the abandoned vehicles of the faint-hearted.
PETER MCWILLIAMS
The point of living, and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to...
PETER USTINOV
The camera is a killing chamber, which speeds up the time it claims to be conserving. Like coffins e...
PETER CONRAD
Peace is no more than a dream as long as we need the comfort of the clan.
PETER NICOLS
Integrity is not a 90 percent thing, not a 95 percent thing; either you have it or you don't.
PETER SCOTESE
There used to be a real me, but I had it surgically removed.
PETER SELLER
The stupidity of a stupid man is mercifully intimate and reticient, while the stupidity of an intell...
PETER USTINOV
Ignorance is no excuse, it's the real thing.
IRENE PETER
All humans are hypocrites; the biggest hypocrite of all is the one who claims to detest hypocrisy.
PETER WASTHOLM
Leadership is not magnetic personality--that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not making fri...
PETER DRUCKER
Laughter would be bereaved if snobbery died.
PETER USTINOV
I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me to be the most c...
PETER USTINOV
A different world cannot be built by indifferent people.
PETER MARSHALL
Motivation is like food for the brain. You cannot get enough in one sitting. It needs continual and ...
PETER DAVIES
We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
PETER DRUCKER
Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.
PETER DRUCKER
Give to us clear vision that we may know where to stand and what to stand for -- because unless we s...
PETER MARSHALL
We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the mos...
PETER DRUCKER
Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.
PETER DRUCKER
The computer is a moron.
PETER DRUCKER
As much as we like to think that we are independent-minded, free-willed, autonomous individuals, the...
PETER MCWILLIAMS
The really important things are said over cocktails and are never done.
PETER DRUCKER
Nothing ventured, nothing gained -- but if everything is ventured, and still nothing gained, give up...
PETER WASTHOLM
Common Sense is in medicine the master workman.
PETER LATHAM
All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it -- an oblique, indirect sample of what it cont...
PETER CONRAD
If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.
PETER GILCREST
First, all relationships are with yourself-and sometimes they involve other people. Second, the most...
PETER MCWILLIAMS