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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 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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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 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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Throughout human history, the apostles of purity, those who have claimed to possess a total explanation, have wrought havoc among mere mixed-up human beings. – Salman Rushdie

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History

History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology. – W. H. Auden

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History

With the perspective afforded by the passage of time, where does 9/11 rank as a turning point in our national history? For the victims and their families, innocents going about their lives, suddenly and brutally murdered, no other day can ever matter as much. – Jon Meacham

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History

But let me tell you, this gender thing is history. Youre looking at a guy who sat down with Margaret Thatcher across the table and talked about serious issues. – George H. W. Bush

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History

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Knowledge is power. Information is power. The secreting or hoarding of knowledge or information may be an act of tyranny camouflaged as humility. – Robin Morgan

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Knowledge

So the major obstacle to the development of new supplies is not geology but what happens above ground: international affairs, politics, investment and technology. – Daniel Yergin

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Technology

I would like to find a stew that will give me heartburn immediately, instead of at three o clock in the morning. – John Barrymore

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Most of my arguments with musicians through the years have had more to do with their attitude about music, or their attitude about their own lives, or their personal responsibility. Music has never really been the big centerpiece of the fight. – Billy Corgan

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Attitude