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

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Machiavellis teaching would hardly have stood the test of Parliamentary government, for public discussion demands at least the profession of good faith. – Lord Acton

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No country in history ever sent mothers of toddlers off to fight enemy soldiers until the United States did this in the Iraq war. – Phyllis Schlafly

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I learned much more about acting from philosophy courses, psychology courses, history and anthropology than I ever learned in acting class. – Tim Robbins

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Of the twenty-two civilizations that have appeared in history, nineteen of them collapsed when they reached the moral state the United States is in now. – Arnold J. Toynbee

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Rome – the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar. – George Eliot

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The time for action is now. Its never too late to do something. – Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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My Christmas wish would be to have an entire week off. To spend it with my family and just curl up and watch Christmas movies when its snowing outside. – David Hasselhoff

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It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken. – Aristotle

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If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace. – Thomas Paine

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