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Quote by Augustine Birrell
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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The Jews greatest contribution to history is dissatisfaction! Were a nation born to be discontented. Whatever exists we believe can be changed for the better. – Shimon Peres

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Whosoever, in writing a modern history, shall follow truth too near the heels, it may haply strike out his teeth. – Walter Raleigh, History of the World

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History

Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want not the alleviation but the silencing of misery. – Albert Camus

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History

I did a book in 1996, an overview of black history. In that process I became more aware of a lot of the black inventors of the 19th century. – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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Once an absurdity is accepted as truth, it will seem truer the more absurd it is shown to be. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Confess you were wrong yesterday; it will show you are wise today. – Proverb

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We believe that God is big enough to give every nationality their own religion, as hes given them their own taste in food, in plants, in furniture, and housing. I think that each religion has their basic Christ-ish way to get to the Everlasting God. – Duane Chapman

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No one who has come to true greatness has not felt in some degree that his life belongs to the people, and what God has given them he gives it for mankind. – Phillips Brooks

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