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The main essentials of a successful prime minister are sleep and a

The main essentials of a successful prime minister are sleep and a sense of history. – Harold Wilson

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He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery. – Harold Wilson

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Irish fiction is full of secrets, guilty pasts, divided identities. It is no wonder that there is such a rich tradition of Gothic writing in a nation so haunted by history. – Terry Eagleton

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Terrorism takes us back to ages we thought were long gone if we allow it a free hand to corrupt democratic societies and destroy the basic rules of international life. – Jacques Chirac

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

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