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Libraries are not made, they grow. - Augustine Birrell

Libraries are not made, they grow. – Augustine Birrell

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It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody. – Richard M. Nixon

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The odds are always against you no matter what your previous history is. You have to overcome the tendency to relax. – Tom Osborne

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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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The real 1960s began on the afternoon of November 22, 1963. It came to seem that Kennedys murder opened some malign trap door in American culture, and the wild bats flapped out. – Lance Morrow

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