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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Surely being a Professional Beauty – let alone an ageing one – is one of the most insecure and doomed careers imaginable. – Julie Burchill

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alone
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As a kid, I grew to define what I didnt want my life to be like by sitting behind moaning women on the bus, hearing them bang on about their aches and pains, both real and imagined. – Julie Burchill

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Women
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These women whose antics we smirk at good-naturedly in the pap-traps put themselves out there at least partly on their beauty they are in showbiz, and showing what theyve got is part of their business as much as it is for male show-ponies from the Chippendales to George Clooney. – Julie Burchill

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Beauty
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History is filled with tragic examples of wars that result from diplomatic impasse. Whether in our local communities or in international relations, the skillful use of our communicative capacities to negotiate and resolve differences is the first evidence of human wisdom. – Daisaku Ikeda

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History

History fades into fable; fact becomes clouded with doubt and controversy; the inscription molders from the tablet: the statue falls from the pedestal. Columns, arches, pyramids, what are they but heaps of sand; and their epitaphs, but characters written in the dust? – Washington Irving, The Sketch Book: Westminster Abbey

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History

History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who werent there. – George Santayana

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History

Mans naked form belongs to no particular moment in history it is eternal, and can be looked upon with joy by the people of all ages. – Auguste Rodin

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History

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The first mistake are theirs who commit them, the second are theirs that permit them. – Proverb

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That is the difference between good teachers and great teachers: good teachers make the best of a pupils means great teachers foresee a pupils ends. – Maria Callas

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You can move a lot of water with a thimble. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

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