Quote by Winston Churchill
History with its flickering lamp stumbles along the trail of the p

History with its flickering lamp stumbles along the trail of the past, trying to reconstruct its scenes, to revive its echoes, and kindle with pale gleams the passion of former days. – Winston Churchill

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Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on. – Winston Churchill

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Time
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The human story does not always unfold like a mathematical calculation on the principle that two and two make four. Sometimes in life they make five or minus three; and sometimes the blackboard topples down in the middle of the sum and leaves the class in disorder and the pedagogue with a black eye. – Winston Churchill

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Perfection
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But whenever history is in the making, theres some kind of intangible feeling. – Krist Novoselic

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My face has changed with the years and has enough history in it to give audiences something to work with. – Jeanne Moreau

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History

In history people dressed much better than we do today. – Vivienne Westwood

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History

The entire history of mankind is, in any case, nothing but a prolonged fight to the death for the conquest of universal prestige and absolute power. – Albert Camus, The Rebel

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