Quote by John Burns
The Thames is liquid history. - John Burns

The Thames is liquid history. – John Burns

Other quotes by John Burns

You come before me this morning with clean hands and clean collars. I want you to have clean tongues, clean manners, clean morals and clean characters. – John Burns

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Morning
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In this work I have received the opposition of a number of men who only advocate the unobtainable because the immediately possible is beyond their moral courage, administrative ability, and their political prescience. – John Burns

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Courage
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I want the municipality to be a helping hand to the man with a desire of sympathy, to help the fallen when it is not in their power to help themselves. – John Burns

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Sympathy
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Other Quotes from
History
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If good history is dispassionate history, it must naturally wait until the passions of the period subside. – James Buchan

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History

It is a great pity that every human being does not, at an early stage of his life, have to write a historical work. He would then realize that the human race is in quite a jam about truth. – Rebecca West

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History

In the tumult of men and events, solitude was my temptation now it is my friend. What other satisfaction can be sought once you have confronted History? – Charles de Gaulle

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History

The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice their choice! – Dwight D. Eisenhower

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History

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Memory itself is an internal rumour. – George Santayana, The Life of Reason

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Memory

Thats one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind. – Neil Armstrong

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Space

I skip to the heartbeat of my angel. – Terri Guillemets

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Skipping

The signs of the zodiac are karmic patterns; the planets are the looms; the will is the weaver. – Author Unknown

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