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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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Harold Wilson
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In our wildest aberrations we dream of an equilibrium we have left behind and which we naively expect to find at the end of our errors. Childish presumption which justifies the fact that child-nations, inheriting our follies, are now directing our history. – Albert Camus

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History

Man is an historical animal, with a deep sense of his own past; and if he cannot integrate the past by a history explicit and true, he will integrate it by a history implicit and false. – Geoffrey Barraclough, History in a Changing World

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Well, I think that California has had a history of always spending more money than it takes in. – Arnold Schwarzenegger

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Our history is every human history; a black and gory business, with more scoundrels than wise men at the lead, and more louts than both put together to cheer and follow. – Philip Wylie, Generation of Vipers

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