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Quote by Augustine Birrell
That great dust-heap called history. - Augustine Birrell

That great dust-heap called history. – Augustine Birrell

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An ordinary man can… surround himself with two thousand books… and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is possible to be happy. – Augustine Birrell

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A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind. – John Maynard Keynes

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The odds are always against you no matter what your previous history is. You have to overcome the tendency to relax. – Tom Osborne

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Life doesnt just happen its constructed through the history of power. And thats something I am interested in and so is the art world: a world thats trying to engage socially, with a leftist slant, to work out how we got here. – Mike Mills

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History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind. – Edward Gibbon

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