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Quote by Lord Acton
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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And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters get control. History has proven that. – Lord Acton

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History
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Save for the wild force of Nature, nothing moves in this world that is not Greek in its origin. – Lord Acton

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Nature
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If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. Nothing in the paper today, we sigh. – Lord Acton

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Morning
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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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History

History is the distillation of rumor. – Thomas Carlyle

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History

History is littered with wars which everybody knew would never happen. – Enoch Powell

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History

All through history, there have always been movements where business was not just about the accumulation of proceeds but also for the public good. – Anita Roddick

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History

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Ive never been nostalgic, personally or politically – if the past was so great, how come its history? – Julie Burchill

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What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from lifes page, And be alone on earth, as I am now. – Lord Byron

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Age

Deep Throat is a guy who could have your files and mine in his trust. – Chuck Colson

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Play allows us to develop alternatives to violence and despair…. – Stuart Brown

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