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History balances the frustration of

History balances the frustration of “how far we have to go” with the satisfaction of “how far we have come.” It teaches us tolerance for the human shortcomings and imperfections which are not uniquely of our generation, but of all time. – Lewis F. Powell, Jr.

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History attempts to provide society with an artificial collective memory. – Mark M. Krug, History and the Social Sciences

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History is never above the melee. It is not allowed to be neutral, but forced to enlist in every army. – Allan Nevins, The Gateway to History

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This is what I would have done if I had to have a real job: I would have been a history teacher. – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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Optimists are usually wrong. But all the great change in history, positive change, was done by optimists. – Thomas Friedman

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