Quote by Julie Burchill
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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Being a monarchist – saying that one small group is born more worthy of respect than another – is just as warped and strange as being a racist. – Julie Burchill

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respect
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As I get older I think, contrary to modern assumption but in line with the old Lerner and Lowe song, that it would actually benefit both them and society if – to quote Professor Higgins – a woman could be more like a man. – Julie Burchill

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Society
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America is the greatest nation ever founded. The ideals are the greatest ever espoused in human history, and we just need the country to live up to them. But what I worry about are the 1 million black men in the prison system. – Henry Louis Gates

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So Im OK with myself, with history, my work, who I am and who I was. – Sidney Poitier

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Its a very good historical book about history. – Dan Quayle

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A history in which every particular incident may be true may on the whole be false. – Thomas Babington Macaulay

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The busy have no time for tears. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

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In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might. – Winston Churchill

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After they had dined, Mrs. Teachum told them she thought it proper that they should use some exercise in the cooler part of the day, lest, by sitting too much, they should injure their health. – Sarah Fielding (1710–1768), “The Governess, or The Little Female Academy,”

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