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Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which

Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time. – Francis Bacon

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Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend. – Francis Bacon

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The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil. – Francis Bacon

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Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders. – Margaret Mead

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Jewelry and pins have been worn throughout history as symbols of power, sending messages. Interestingly enough, it was mostly men who wore the jewelry in various times, and obviously crowns were part of signals that were being sent throughout history by people of rank. – Madeleine Albright

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History maketh a young man to be old, without either wrinkles or gray hairs; privileging him with the experience of age, without either the infirmities or inconveniences thereof. – Thomas Fuller

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I dont want to go negative on Franklin Delano Roosevelt, but he didnt pass an economic deal in the first 100 days. We have passed the largest Recovery Act in the history of the country. – Rahm Emanuel

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