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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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John Burns
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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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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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John Burns
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History
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Our national history has so often filled us with bitterness and the feeling of helplessness. – Lech Walesa

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History

History is a tool used by politicians to justify their intentions. – Ted Koppel

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History

The process of making natural history films is to try to prevent the animal knowing you are there, so you get glimpses of a non-human world, and that is a transporting thing. – David Attenborough

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History

Great men are usually the products of their times and one of the men developed by these times takes rank with the greatest railroad leaders in history. – John Moody

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History

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The past empowers the present, and the sweeping footsteps leading to this present mark the pathways to the future. – Mary Catherine Bateson

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Past, the

Libraries are the wardrobes of literature, whence men, properly informed may bring forth something for ornament, much for curiosity, and more for use. – William Dyer

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Libraries

All photos are accurate. None of them is the truth. – Richard Avedon

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Photography

After the break up of the municipality and the loss of his income my father lost health and spirits. – Catherine Helen Spence

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Health