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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

"If you are still breathing, don not stop learning."

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"It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English - up to fifty words used in correct context - no human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese."

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"Understand the concept of time and find ways to maximize it effectively."

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"Let's stop discussing about who a wise person is and start learning to become wise persons. Begin acquiring knowledge at the very moment you discover that there is something called "knowledge"!"

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"You will learn more when you teach someone else. The secret to obtaining more knowledge is teaching more people as possible and available!"

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"Learn new things. Do progressive research into what you do and find out how others outside your quarters are doing it. Dare to be excellent. Average brands easily go into extinction soonest."

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"Illiteracy and stupidity are not quite different statuses, they are both the outcome of our lethargy and indolence."

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"You could try and understand people, you could read books and understand words and concepts and ideas, but you could never understand enough or have enough knowledge to keep away the surprises that both fate and human beings had in store."

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"It's always better if they see. Then they don't imagine things. So I didn't imagine, I remembered."

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"Give me a book, she said. "A book of sermons, anything."What do you want a book for?"I want words. I've got to have more words. I was kept stupid on purpose."

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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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"The greatest men, you can quote for everything."
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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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"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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"Save for the wild force of Nature, nothing moves in this world that is not Greek in its origin."
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"History provides neither compensation for suffering nor penalties for wrong."
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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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"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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"Liberty is the prevention of control by others."
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