Quote by Augustine Birrell
Libraries are not made, they grow. - Augustine Birrell

Libraries are not made, they grow. – Augustine Birrell

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History could pass for a scarlet text, its jot and title graven red in human blood. – Eldridge Cleaver

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Our flag honors those who have fought to protect it, and is a reminder of the sacrifice of our nations founders and heroes. As the ultimate icon of Americas storied history, the Stars and Stripes represents the very best of this nation. – Joe Barton

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Bulls dont read. Bears read financial history. As markets fall to bits, the bears dust off the Dutch tulip mania of 1637, the Banque Royale of 1719-20, the railway speculation of the 1840s, the great crash of 1929. – James Buchan

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While history never repeats itself, political patterns do. – Eric Alterman

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I think we can get respect for Parliament back providing governments and oppositions are frank. – John Major

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People should have freedom in their pilgrimages and tours. They should come and visit historical monuments and sites – lets say the sites around Iran – where they can easily engage in wide- scale contacts with others. – Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

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Learning, while at school, that the charge for the education of girls was the same as that for boys, and that, when they became teachers, women received only half as much as men for their services, the injustice of this distinction was so apparent. – Lucretia Mott

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Once we know of atrocities we cannot remain silent, and knowledge inevitably leads to an urge to protect the innocent. – Azar Nafisi

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