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A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history - with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila. |
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- Mitch Ratliffe
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A country losing touch with its own history is like an old man losing his glasses, a distressing sight, at once vulnerable, unsure, and easily disoriented. |
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- George Walden
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A generation which ignores history has no past and no future. |
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- 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. |
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- Norman Cousins
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A people without history is like wind on the buffalo grass. Sioux |
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- American Indian Proverbs
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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. |
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- Anna Mary Robertson Moses
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All historians, even the most scientific, have bias, if in no other sense than the determination not to have any. |
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- Carl Lotus Becker
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America is therefore the land of the future, where, in the ages that lie before us, the burden of the World's History shall reveal itself. |
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- Georg W. Hegel
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Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act of depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest. |
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- Mahatma Gandhi
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Any movement in history which attempts to perpetuate itself, becomes reactionary. |
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- Marshal Tito
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