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Do you young men listen to an old man, to whom old men listened when he was young.
Octavian Caesar Augustus 
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History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.
Percy Bysshe Shelley 
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In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield.
Douglas MacArthur 
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I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something else - I can give my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations.
Elizabeth II 
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Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
H. G. Wells 
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Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.
John F. Kennedy 
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Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories.
Douglas MacArthur 
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The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.
Epicurus 
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