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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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Life isnt meant to be easy. Its hard to take being on the top – or on the bottom. I guess Im something of a fatalist. You have to have a sense of history, I think, to survive some of these things… Life is one crisis after another. – Richard M. Nixon

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History

Revolutions are the periods of history when individuals count most. – Norman Mailer

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History

History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul. – Lord Acton

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History

Im trying to make a case for those people who dont have a sense of belonging that they should have, that there is something really worthwhile in having a sense of belonging, and recasting and looking at our modern history. – Billy Bragg

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History

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Our only hope is to control the vote. – Medgar Evers

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Our thoughts take the wildest flight: Even at the moment when they should arrange themselves in thoughtful order. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

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