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He was what I often think is a dangerous thing for a statesman to

He was what I often think is a dangerous thing for a statesman to be – a student of history and like most of those who study history, he learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones. – A. J. P. Taylor

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The United States is the only power in history that became great by giving and not by taking. I think the crisis was when the United States had more money than ideas. Money doesnt produce money. Ideas produce money. – Shimon Peres

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Part of the problem is voters know relatively little about Romney. And some of what they know about him complicates his task: Romney has a history of flip-flopping on issues, hes extraordinarily wealthy, and he can be tone-deaf about what moves voters. He just doesnt seem comfortable in his skin. – Ron Fournier

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The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. – Abraham Lincoln

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It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself. – Gertrude Stein

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The difference between my quotations and those of the next man is that I leave out the inverted commas. – George Moore, quoted in Peter’s Quotations: Ideas for Our Times by Laurenc

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If we were but conscious of our own utter littleness, we would not dare look with contempt on the smallest atom in the world. – Charles Lanman, “Musings,” 1840

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