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Libraries are not made, they grow. - Augustine Birrell

Libraries are not made, they grow. – Augustine Birrell

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An ordinary man can… surround himself with two thousand books… and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is possible to be happy. – Augustine Birrell

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Let me tell you, never before in the history of this planet has anybody made the progress that African-Americans have made in a 30-year period, in spite of many black folks and white folks lying to one another. – Dick Gregory

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There is a widespread difficulty in the Muslim world, which has to do with how the people are taught about examining their own history. A whole range of stuff has been placed off limits. – Salman Rushdie

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History is philosophy teaching by examples. – Thucydides, The History of the Peloponnesian War

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In many ways, history is marked as before and after Rosa Parks. She sat down in order that we all might stand up, and the walls of segregation came down. – Jesse Jackson

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It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused. – Marcel Proust

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Its not a matter of becoming a superstar. Fame and money arent the purpose of all this. No actors going to say, I dont want to be famous. But the main purpose for doing what Im doing is the passion in the work. – Christopher Lambert

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