Quote by Ken Burns
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I have made a film about jazz that tries to look through jazz to see what it tells us about who we are as a people. I think that jazz is a spectacularly accurate model of democracy and a kind of look into our redemptive future possibilities. – Ken Burns

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I think we too often make choices based on the safety of cynicism, and what were lead to is a life not fully lived. Cynicism is fear, and its worse than fear – its active disengagement. – Ken Burns

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History is malleable. A new cache of diaries can shed new light, and archeological evidence can challenge our popular assumptions. – Ken Burns

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History
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People tend to forget that the word “history” contains the word “story”. – Ken Burns

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At this early stage in our evolution, now through our infancy and into our childhood and then, with luck, our growing up, what our species needs most of all, right now, is simply a future. – Lewis Thomas

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There was a certain point in my life where I had to decide that I was going to take my future and Nicoles and not wallow in what happened to me because when you do that, you just keep repeating whats been happening and at some point you have to make a choice. – Boris Kodjoe

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All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children. – Charles Darwin

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That which the dream shows is the shadow of such wisdom as exists in man, even if during his waking state he may know nothing about it…. We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things, and are asleep in regard to that which is real within ourself. – Paracelsus, quoted in The Dream Game

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Sympathy for victims is always counter-balanced by an equal and opposite feeling of resentment towards them. – Ben Elton

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