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Quote by Edmund Burke
People will not look forward to posterity who will not look backwa

People will not look forward to posterity who will not look backward to their ancestors. – Edmund Burke

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Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations – wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco. – Edmund Burke

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Men
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Whenever our neighbors house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own. – Edmund Burke

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Caution
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Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy. – Edmund Burke

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History is malleable. A new cache of diaries can shed new light, and archeological evidence can challenge our popular assumptions. – Ken Burns

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History

It would be incredibly presumptuous and self-serving of me to believe that Facebook was the end of history. The only way it could possibly be the end of history is if it becomes some sort of artificial super intelligence that takes over the world. – Sean Parker

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History

For what is history, but… huge libel on human nature, to which we industriously add page after page, volume after volume, as if we were holding up a monument to the honor, rather than the infamy of our species. – Washington Irving, History of New York

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History

Histories are a kind of distilled newspapers. – Thomas Carlyle, Heroes and Hero Worship

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History

Random Quotes

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives. – Euripides

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relationship

Happiness and peace will come to earth only as the light of love and human compassion enter the souls of men. – David O. McKay

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Happiness

In truth, the Library includes all verbal structures, all variations permitted by the twenty-five orthographical symbols, but not a single example of absolute nonsense. – Jorge Luis Borges

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Libraries

It is often said that science must avoid any conclusions which smack of the supernatural. – Michael Behe

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