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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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The great defense against the air menace is to attack the enemys aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure. – Winston Churchill

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Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened. – Winston Churchill

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Everything was going my way. I was happily marching into the history books. Then it all just fell apart. – George Michael

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If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this. – C. S. Lewis

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History is a vast early warning system. – Norman Cousins

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If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth. – E. O. Wilson

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To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter. – Aleister Crowley

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