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History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the s

History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul. – Lord Acton

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Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity. – Lord Acton

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Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right to do what we ought. – Lord Acton

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The construction of Europe is an art. It is the art of the possible. – Jacques Chirac

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The real 1960s began on the afternoon of November 22, 1963. It came to seem that Kennedys murder opened some malign trap door in American culture, and the wild bats flapped out. – Lance Morrow

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People are trapped in history, and history is trapped in them. – James Baldwin, Notes of a Native Son

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Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them. – Leo Tolstoy

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A religion without the element of mystery would not be a religion at all. – Edwin Lewis

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