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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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You can learn as much about the history from reading about the present as you can vice versa, that is learning about the present through history, which is what I do for a living. – Ken Burns

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

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History
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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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We have wasted History like a bunch of drunks shooting dice back in the mens crapper of the local bar. – Charles Bukowski

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History

This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind. – Neil Armstrong

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History

Whatever can be noted historically can be found within history. – Martin Heidegger

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History

To many of the modern generations, history, like God, is dead. – Derek Heather

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History

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