"The main essentials of a successful prime minister are sleep and a sense of history."

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"The good old days, when each idea had an owner, are gone forever."

Paulo Coelho, Brazilian Novelist

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"The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion."

Arthur C. Clarke, English Writer

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"They were obviously headstones of graves, though the graves themselves no longer existed as either mounds or depressions; the years had leveled all. Scattered here and there, more massive blocks showed where some pompous or ambitious monument had once flung its feeble defiance at oblivion."

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

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"There was something melancholic about that symbol of their nation's promise of freedom, a bell with a chipped mouth and cleft body."

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"The United States was born in the country and moved to the city in the nineteenth century."

Anonymous, Unknown Unknown

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"The past is not a package one can lay away."

Emily Dickinson, American Poet

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"The double-crossed, might-have-been history of my country is not the study of what actually took place here: it's the study of historians' studies. . . .Memories are their own descendants masquerading as the ancestors of the present."

David Mitchell, British Novelist

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"That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history."

Aldous Huxley, English Novelist

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"Those who stand for different causes during different generations often experience the same oppositions and the same difficulties as those of the previous and the next generations. That is the basis of history repeating itself."

Criss Jami, American Philosopher

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"Super-eruption of mount Toba, 76,000 years ago had wiped out a previous great civilization on earth."

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"He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery."

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"We are redefining and we are restating our socialism in terms of the scientific revolution."

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"Everybody should have an equal chance - but they shouldn't have a flying start."

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"One man's wage increase is another man's price increase."

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"Whichever party is in office, the Treasury is in power."

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"I believe the greatest asset a head of state can have is the ability to get a good night's sleep."

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"A week is a long time in politics."

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"If I had the choice between smoked salmon and tinned salmon, I'd have it tinned. With vinegar."

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"Given a fair wind, we will negotiate our way into the Common Market, head held high, not crawling in. Negotiations? Yes. Unconditional acceptance of whatever terms are offered us? No."

Acceptance

"This Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing."

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