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Quote by Dante Alighieri
Be as a tower firmly set Shakes not its top for any blast that blo

Be as a tower firmly set Shakes not its top for any blast that blows. – Dante Alighieri

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If an historian were to relate truthfully all the crimes, weaknesses and disorders of mankind, his readers would take his work for satire rather than for history. – Pierre Bayle, Historical and Critical Dictionary

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Jews have a special relationship to books, and the Haggadah has been translated more widely, and reprinted more often, than any other Jewish book. It is not a work of history or philosophy, not a prayer book, users manual, timeline, poem or palimpsest – and yet it is all these things. – Jonathan Safran Foer

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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times. – Gustave Flaubert

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An account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools. – Ambrose Bierce

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Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished. – Francis Bacon

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The Egyptian contribution to architecture was more concerned with remembering the dead than the living. – Stephen Gardiner

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I spend around two and half hours on the track every day running and another 2 hours in the weight room lifting weights with my strength coach. – Allyson Felix

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So Bush certainly wasnt the greatest, and Obama has not done the job. And hes created a lot of disincentive. Hes created a lot of great dissatisfaction. Regulations and regulatory is going through the roof. Its almost impossible to get anything done in the country. – Donald Trump

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