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History is a big word... History is not the sort of animal you can domesticate.

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History is a big word... History is not the sort of animal you can domesticate.

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I prefer insomnia to anaesthesia.

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I claim the right to take a stand once in a while.

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I live quietly at home among my family and friends.

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The salt of any interesting civilization is mixture.

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The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.

Abraham Lincoln 16th U.S. President

All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.

Moliere Playwright

In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.

Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist

Today it is fashionable to talk about the poor. Unfortunately, it is not fashionable to talk with them.

Mother Teresa Saint

Rather an end in horror, than horror without end. He could not condemn principles he might need to invoke and apply later. The wolf cannot help having been created by God as he is, but we shoot him all the same if we have to. The great player in diplomacy, as in chess, asks the question,Does this improve me?, not look at the possible fringe benefits If you can't have what you like, you must like what you have.

A. J. P. Taylor Historian

It is hard to think of anything which more tragically and clearly exemplifies the phenomenon of good political intentions achieving the precise opposite of their aim.

A. N. Wilson Writer

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