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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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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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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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The real history of consciousness starts with ones first lie. – Joseph Brodsky

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History

We decry violence all the time in this country, but look at our history. We were born in a violent revolution, and weve been in wars ever since. Were not a pacific people. – James Lee Burke

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History

For all history up to the end of the Cold War, summit meetings were historic and dramatic occasions, when leaders who controlled the destiny of much of the world met to change the world. – Conrad Black

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History

What would constitute useful history? That which should teach us our duties and our rights, without appearing to teach them. – Voltaire, Philosophical Dictionary

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History

Random Quotes

It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself. – Epicurus

Category:
Confidence

What are your historical Facts; still more your biographical? Wilt thou know a man by stringing-together beadrolls of what thou namest Facts? – Thomas Carlyle

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Facts

Down to Gehenna, or up to the Throne, He travels the fastest who travels alone. – Rudyard Kipling

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alone

I like to browse in occult bookshops if for no other reason than to refresh my commitment to science. – Heinz Pagels, The Dreams of Reason

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Religion