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It Is One Of The Many Ironies Of This Period That, At A Time When The Intelligentsia Were Excoriating Mellon For Tax-evasion, And Contrasting The Smooth-running Soviet Planned Economy With The Breakdown In America, He Was Secretly Exploiting The Frantic Necessities Of The Soviet Leaders To Form The Basis Of One Of America's Most Splendid Public Collections

The Study Of History Is A Powerful Antidote To Contemporary Arrogance. It Is Humbling To Discover How Many Of Our Glib Assumptions, Which Seem To Us Novel And Plausible, Have Been Tested Before, Not Once But Many Times And In Innumerable Guises; And Discovered To Be, At Great Human Cost, Wholly False.

To Many, Heathrow In August Is A Paradigm Of Hell.

John Major Is What He Is: A Man From Nowhere, Going Nowhere, Heading For A Well-merited Obscurity As Fast As His Mediocre Talents Can Carry Him.

If I See A Door Ajar, I Push On It To See How Far It Will Open, And If It Opens Wide I Go Through It.