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

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History
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Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would yield every honor which has been accorded by war. – Douglas MacArthur

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History

Historys a resource. – Laura Linney

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History

To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine. – Max Beerbohm

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History

I think people in general have neglected to learn about history. – Maynard James Keenan

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History

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Politics exist in the boardroom, as well. – Carly Fiorina

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In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich. – Henry Ward Beecher

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Age does not bring you wisdom, age brings you wrinkles. – Estelle Getty

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