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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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From Jefferson to Jackson to Lincoln to FDR to Reagan, every great president inspires enormous affection and enormous hostility. Well all be much saner, I think, if we remember that history is full of surprises and things that seemed absolutely certain one day are often unimaginable the next. – Jon Meacham

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History

For the first time in our history, ideology and theology hold a monopoly of power in Washington. – Bill Moyers

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History

We are the prisoners of history. Or are we? – Robert Penn Warren, Segregation

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History

It is in the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is a hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some direction that doesnt get confined, permanently blocked, as it has so many times before in various periods in the history of man. – Richard P. Feynman

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History

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Anyone who tells a lie has not a pure heart, and cannot make a good soup. – Ludwig van Beethoven

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The public has lost faith in the ability of Social Security and Medicare to provide for old age. Theyve lost faith in the banking system and in conventional medical insurance. – Ron Chernow

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Unfortunately, the Republican leadership in the House right now seems to have been strangled by the tea party. – Debbie Wasserman Schultz

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If epic poetry is a definite species, the sagas do not fall within it. – Lascelles Abercrombie

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