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History is the record of what one age finds worthy of note in anot

History is the record of what one age finds worthy of note in another. – Jacob Burckhardt

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Jews have a special relationship to books, and the Haggadah has been translated more widely, and reprinted more often, than any other Jewish book. It is not a work of history or philosophy, not a prayer book, users manual, timeline, poem or palimpsest – and yet it is all these things. – Jonathan Safran Foer

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OUR history begins before we are born. We represent the hereditary influences of our race, and our ancestors virtually live in us. – James Nasmyth

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The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nations history. I mean in this centurys history. But we all lived in this century. I didnt live in this century. – Dan Quayle

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

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