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John Acton

"If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest emancipation."

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"If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest emancipation."

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Amber Hurdle

"The truth is that few know the truth."

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"I know a lot of stuff, not only about you, about me (of course) and many other people.... "So how I don't know??" you ask yourself??You never asked me and even you asked me you never understood me. You just said "Okay"... and that's all."

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Amber Hurdle

"You have this and this, soon it will come and this and you are still at this level of knowledge... so poor for you!"

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Amber Hurdle

"If I know the end of a book or a film I want to know why it happen..."

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Amber Hurdle

"The amount of books or films or series which are you going to watch doesn't matter as far as long you understand all of them and keep track of all them."

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Amber Hurdle

"Books can kill you, while you are reading."

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Amber Hurdle

"Intuition and concepts constitute... the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge."

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Amber Hurdle

"There is a huge difference between thinking we know something and actually knowing something."

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Amber Hurdle

"I am reading Henry James, and feel myself as one entombed in a block of smooth amber."

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Amber Hurdle

"My favorite words in the world are these: in conjunction.They question curiosities in simple form and function. is a query of broadest scope. is wonder that fuels all hope.Together they lasso the mind like rope, and spur the wildest deductions!"

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"Liberty is the prevention of control by others."
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"Liberty is the condition of duty, the guardian of conscience. It grows as conscience grows. The domains of both grow together. Liberty is safety from all hindrances, even sin. So that Liberty ends by being Free Will."
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"The greatest men, you can quote for everything."
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"Save for the wild force of Nature, nothing moves in this world that is not Greek in its origin."
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"The fate of every democracy, of every government based on the sovereignty of the people, depends on the choices it makes between these opposite principles, absolute power on the one hand, and on the other the restraints of legality and the authority of tradition."
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"History provides neither compensation for suffering nor penalties for wrong."
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"By a series of violent shocks, the nations in succession have struggled to shake off the Past, to reverse the action of Time and the verdict of success, and to rescue the world from the reign of the dead."
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"The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities."
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"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely."
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"By liberty I mean the assurance that every man shall be protected in doing what he believes is his duty against the influence of authority and majorities, custom and opinion."
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