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Ive never been nostalgic, personally or politically - if the past

Ive never been nostalgic, personally or politically – if the past was so great, how come its history? – Julie Burchill

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Monarchists frequently declare that without the royal family, Britain would be nothing. What a woeful lack of love for ones country such statements express. – Julie Burchill

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Its very hard to imagine the phrase consumer society used so cheerfully, and interpreted so enthusiastically, in England. – Julie Burchill

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Without philosophy, history seems to me to be deaf and dumb. – Ferdinand Baur, Symbolik und Mythologic

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We have not invaded anyone. We have not conquered anyone. We have not grabbed their land, their culture, their history and tried to enforce our way of life on them. – Abdul Kalam

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Watch the History Channel if you want it literal and historically perfect. – Emily Blunt

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