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Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemi

Rome – the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar. – George Eliot

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Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty. – George Eliot

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Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline. – George Eliot

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Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral. They have the same effect of grating incongruity as the sound of a coarse voice breaking the solemn silence of night. – George Eliot

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Nixon in 1968, unlike Obama 2008, was elected as a minority president with only 43 percent of the vote. Yet, in 1972, he won what, in some measures, was the most lopsided election in American history with 61 percent. – John Podhoretz

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[History is] a tyranny over the souls of the dead – and so the imagination of the living. – William Carlos Williams

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Live out of your imagination, not your history. – Stephen Covey

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Remember, God provides the best camouflage several hours out of every 24. – David M. Shoup

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