Quote by George Eliot
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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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When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity. – George Eliot

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Death
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What greater thing is there for human souls than to feel that they are joined for life — to be with each other in silent unspeakable memories. – George Eliot

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From Jefferson to Jackson to Lincoln to FDR to Reagan, every great president inspires enormous affection and enormous hostility. Well all be much saner, I think, if we remember that history is full of surprises and things that seemed absolutely certain one day are often unimaginable the next. – Jon Meacham

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Black people dont have an accurate idea of their history, which has been either suppressed or distorted. – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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God cannot alter the past, though historians can. – Samuel Butler, “Prose Observations”

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Most history is guessing, and the rest is prejudice. – Will and Ariel Durant, Our Oriental Heritage

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Most people, upon reaching the top, look down and enjoy the view. The smart money is on looking up and finding new mountains to climb. – Jeb Dickerson, jebdickerson.com

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In the light of our culture, these are not unreasonable questions and tactics, but if once again, we try to see the lens through which we look, we can see that there is far too great an emphasis placed on the future. – Alan Dundes

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The degree of loving is measured by the degree of giving. – Edwin Louis Cole

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Parents who are afraid to put their foot down usually have children who step on their toes. – Chinese Proverb

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