9b. de totalitaire ideologieën communisme, fascisme en nationaalsocialisme

4b. de opkomst van stedelijke burgerij en de toenemende zelfstandigheid van steden

4c. het begin van staatsvorming en centralisatie

5b. het burgerlijk bestuur en de stedelijke cultuur in Nederland

5c. de Opstand en het ontstaan van een onafhankelijke Nederlandse staat

6a. het streven van vorsten naar absolute macht

6b. de bijzondere plaats en de bloed van de Nederlandse Republiek

7a. rationeel optimisme en toepassing van verlicht denken

7a. het streven naar grondrechten en naar politieke invloed van de burgerij in de Franse en Bataafse revolutie

7b. ancien regime en verlicht absolutisme

7d. de democratische revoluties

8a. de industriële revolutie

8b. discussies over de sociale kwestie

8d. de opkomst van emancipatiebewegingen

8e. voortschrijdende democratisering

8f. de opkomst van politiek-maatschappelijke stromingen

9c. de crisis van het wereldkapitalisme

9d. het voeren van 2 wereldoorlogen

9f. de Duitse bezetting van Nederland

9g. verwoestingen door massavernietigingswapens en de betrokkenheid van burgers in de oorlog

10a. de verdeling van de wereld in twee ideologische blokken en de wapenwedloop

Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal.

Empathy is about standing in someone elses shoes feeling with his or her heart seeing with his or her eyes. Not only is empathy hard to outsource and automate but it makes the world a better place.

Good grief, we're getting offended by everything these days! People can't say anything without offending somebody.

I look forward to the day when indigenous actors can play Hamlet and Ophelia and not just Othello and Desdemona.

Diplomacy is the lowest form of politeness because it misquotes the greatest number of people. A nation like an individual if it has anything to say should simply say it.

I'm going to vote in support of the president of the United States in keeping the troops in Iraq until the president and our military is convinced that the mission is complete.

Is that what I've become, a piece of meat?

I would be humiliated if I found out that anything I did actually became a commercial success.

If Pocahontas had been given the foresight to see what devastating consequences her actions and belief in the possibility of peace would have brought upon her people, I wonder if she would have avoided befriending the English or not.

When I first started making ambient music, I was setting up systems using synthesizers that generated pulses more or less randomly. The end result is a kind of music that continuously changes. Of course, until computers came along, all I could actually present of that work was a piece of its output.

Contrary to popular mythology, not all NFL cheerleaders are bimbos or strippers or bored pretty girls looking to get rich. The Ben-Gals offer proof. Neither a bimbo nor a stripper nor a bored pretty girl would survive the rigorous life of a Ben-Gal. The Ben-Gals all have jobs or school or both.

I will always try to be as normal as I can. Obviously, there may have to be some limits with it, but I am still a fan at heart and want to live like a normal person.

You write a book and you hope somebody will go out and pay $24.95 for what you've just said. I think books were my salvation. Books saved me from being miserable.

I think people like to be scared. I think people like tension and suspense in a movie.

Cod is more responsible for the discovery of the New World than almost anything else. Drove the Vikings across the North Atlantic, and John Cabot discovered America by looking for cod.

The older I get the more open minded I get the less judgmental I get.

Guilt is to danger what fire is to gunpowder a man need not fear to walk among many barrels of powder if he have no fire about him.

I think 'tradition' is in the past - and how can someone really 'fear' a color? A man may prefer navy to turquoise, but a self assured man could wear any color and he knows that. It's a distinction of confidence.

Canadians look down on the United States and consider it Hell. They are right to do so. Canada is to the United States what, in Dante's scheme, Limbo is to Hell.

I lost relatives to AIDS, a couple of my closest cousins. I lost friends to AIDS, high-school friends who never even made it to their 21st birthdays in the '80s. When it's that close to you, you can't really deny it, and you can't run from it.

What can separate us from the love of God? Not life, not death, nothing in the present, nothing in the future. Not angels, not demons nothing is able to stand between us and his loving plans because you can't stop them.

If you ain't Texan, I ain't got time for you.

I tend to think having an impact on the world is a lot more complicated than government.

There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion.