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History is malleable. A new cache of diaries can shed new light, a

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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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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Future
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Ken Burns
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I began to feel that the drama of the truth that is in the moment and in the past is richer and more interesting than the drama of Hollywood movies. So I began looking at documentary films. – Ken Burns

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movies
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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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Fear
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History is mostly guessing the rest is prejudice. – Will Durant

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History

I was reading a book… the history of glue – I couldnt put it down. – Tim Vine

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History

Everybody knows theyre on the Obama team: There isnt vice presidential vs. presidential division, theres not a generational pull. People have internalized that this is a real moment in history. – Rahm Emanuel

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History

It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition. – Henry James

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History

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Bigotry or prejudice in any form is more than a problem it is a deep-seated evil within our society. – Judith Light

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Society

I dont know what the future holds. Anything is possible. – Liz Phair

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Future

I love and always have loved policy issues and trying to have an impact on the issues that are out there. I cherish my years in government. I have loved my participation at CNN, at Current writing teaching. Where I will go next, I will have to sort out. – Eliot Spitzer

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Government

The very contradictions in my life are in some ways signs of Gods mercy to me. – Thomas Merton

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God