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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 record all of my music with authentic instruments in a studio before we start editing, doing many, many versions. The music shapes the film as we edit so it has an organic relationship to the content. – Ken Burns

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People tend to forget that the word “history” contains the word “story”. – 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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Throughout history no one has suffered more than God. He has suffered because his own children fell away from him. Ever since the Fall, God has been working tirelessly for the restoration of mankind. People do not know this brokenhearted aspect of God. – Sun Myung Moon

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More and more, I tend to read history. I often find it more up to date than the daily newspapers. – Joe Murray, “History updates current events,” Spartanburg Herald-Journal, May 1

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Political history is far too criminal and pathological to be a fit subject of study for the young. Children should acquire their heroes and villains from fiction. – W.H. Auden, A Certain World

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Now, there are some who would like to rewrite history – revisionist historians is what I like to call them. – George W. Bush

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Those who won our independence… valued liberty as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty. – Louis D. Brandeis

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When you have put all your faith in man and continue to be disappointed, dont you hope there is something out of there that is not of human element? – Natalie Cole

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Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved. – Aristotle

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Statistics are like bikinis. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital. – Aaron Levenstein

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