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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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The past remains integral to us all, individually and collectively. We must concede the ancients their place, as I have argued. But their place is not simply back there in a separate and foreign country; it is assimilated in ourselves, and resurrected into an ever-changing present. – David Lowenthal, The Past Is a Foreign Country

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History will point out some of the things I did wrong and some of the things I did right. – George H. W. Bush

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Stonehenge was built possibly by the Minoans. It presents one of mans first attempts to order his view of the outside world. – Stephen Gardiner

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I want to go down in history. – Haile Gebrselassie

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