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| "A generation which ignores history has no past and no future." |
Robert Anson Heinlein
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| "A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas-a place where history comes to life." |
Norman Cousins
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| "A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today--and in fact we have forgotten." |
Euripides
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| "A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today--and in fact we have forgotten." |
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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| "A page of history is worth a pound of logic." |
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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| "A people without history is like wind on the buffalo grass" |
Proverb
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| "A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is, but often prompts us to rearrange the past." |
Eric Hoffer
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| "A strange thing is memory, and hope; one looks backward, and the other forward; one is of today, the other of tomorrow. Memory is history recorded in our brain, memory is a painter, it paints pictures of the past and of the day." |
Anna Mary Robertson Moses
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| "After you've heard two eyewitness accounts of an auto accident it makes you wonder about history. How do we know, for sure, what ever happened anywhere" |
Unknown
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| "Ah, what a warning for a thoughtless man, Could field or grove, could any spot of earth, Show to his eye an image of the pangs Which it hath witnessed,render back an echo Of the sad steps by which it hath been trod" |
William Wordsworth
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