"People often dismiss the trivia of history and they look upon the major dates of battles and the major generals and that sort of thing. But history is essentially...largely about trivia; our lives are about trivia. And if you can understand the trivia maybe it helps you to understand the bigger issues and larger issues and how they emerged from the trivia." --David Lewis,PhD
"Look at the stars. Some of them have been extinguished for thousands of years but their light is only just reaching us now. The past is always influencing the present."
--Lex Luthor, Smallville