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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

History Past New Rise

"Twenty is a tough age because it slips past in the middle of so much else - university, gap year, leaving home, getting jobs."

Age Home Past Getting

"So with truth - there is a certain moment when one can say, this is the truth and here I put a dot, a stop, and I go to another thing. A judge has to put an end to a deliberation. But for a historian, there's never an end to the past. It can go on and on and on."

Truth Past Moment Stop

"Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones."

A. J. P. Taylor

History Past New Mistakes

"In my opinion, most of the great men of the past were only there for the beer - the wealth, prestige and grandeur that went with the power."

A. J. P. Taylor

Great Power Past Men Wealth

"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

History Past New Dangerous

"I can't tell you where a poem comes from, what it is, or what it is for: nor can any other man. The reason I can't tell you is that the purpose of a poem is to go past telling, to be recognised by burning."

Man You Past Purpose

"The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down."

A. Whitney Brown

History Past Down Someone

"Through all the relationship stuff I've gone through in the past few years, I know there are fundamental differences in how men and women view sex and how they view their futures."

Women Relationship Past Men

"I've always been able to get into the box, but in the past, I'd been very rash in my finishing; I wasn't clear with what I was doing in the final third. When it came to shooting, I was very rushed. I wasn't hitting the ball cleanly."

Past Always Doing Shooting

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