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

The Thames is liquid history. – John Burns

Other quotes by John Burns

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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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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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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Americans believe with all their heart, the vast majority of them, and the vast majority of Floridians, that the United States of America is simply the single greatest nation in all of human history. – Marco Rubio

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History

I am fascinated by history and particularly the Victorian era. – Annie Lennox

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History

When a history book contains no lies it is always tedious. – Anatole France, The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard

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History

A recorded past is no more than a bygone present composed of the footprints made by human beings actually going somewhere but not knowing (in any extended sense), and certainly not revealing to us, how, they came to be afoot on these particular journeys. – Michael Oakeshott, On History

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History

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Beauty lasts five minutes. Maybe longer if you have a good plastic surgeon. – Tia Carrere

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Beauty

Im nearing the end of the road and still learning. – Mike Wallace

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Learning

Trust is the lubrication that makes it possible for organizations to work. – Warren G. Bennis

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Trust

I know people think we drive around in these nice cars and we do whatever we want and our parents will pay our credit cards, but thats not the case. Sure, my parents were generous I got a nice car at 16, but at 18 I was cut off. Ive worked really hard. I opened the store myself. – Kim Kardashian

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car