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• That we should obey laws whether good or bad is a new-fangled notion. There was no such thing in former days. The… — Mahatma Gandhi
• In the case of various kinds of knowledge, we find that what in former days occupied the energies of men of mature… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
• Mountains have been formed by one [or other] of the causes of the formation of stone, most probably from agglutinative clay which… — Avicenna
• The harp that once through Tara's halls The soul of music shed, Now hangs as mute on Tara's walls As if that… — Charles Lamb
• History with its flickering lamp stumbles along the trail of the past, trying to reconstruct its scenes, to revive its echoes, and… — Winston Churchill
• Certainly, for time out of mind, an obsessive dwelling on happier former days has been synonymous with getting older, while it was… — Will Self
• Art lost its basic creative drive the moment it was separated from worship. It severed an umbilical cord and now lives its… — Ingmar Bergman
• History with its flickering lamp stumbles along the trail of the past, trying to reconstruct its scenes, to revive its echoes, and… — Winston Churchill

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