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We are always doing, says he, something for posterity, but I would

We are always doing, says he, something for posterity, but I would see posterity do something for us. – Joseph Addison

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Prejudice and self-sufficiency naturally proceed from inexperience of the world, and ignorance of mankind. – Joseph Addison

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Prejudice
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Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body. – Joseph Addison

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History teaches us the mistakes we are going to make. – Author Unknown

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History

The subject matter is very tricky. Its about the Munich massacre and what Mossad did afterwards with the assassination squads. I think its a turning point in history, especially for the Palestinians. – Daniel Craig

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History

The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it. – Karl Marx

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History, a distillation of rumour. – Thomas Carlyle

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A song has a few rights the same as ordinary citizens… if it happens to feel like flying where humans cannot fly… to scale mountains that are not there, who shall stop it? – Charles Ives

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Silence is the virtue of fools. – Francis Bacon

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Silence

All my life Ive had the privilege to make my living with my imagination, and the most important thing has been to see my creative life grow. I was educated to do that and have lived accordingly. – Tommy Lee Jones

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When the Lord Chancellor violates the trust of his great office of state to solicit party donations from people whose careers he can control, and then says Im not sorry, and Id do it again no wonder the public think that power has gone to their heads. – William Hague

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power