Quote by Ken Burns
You can learn as much about the history from reading about the pre

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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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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History
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Ken Burns
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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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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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Im still learning, and thats what life is about. – Cary Elwes

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Id love to be a saxophonist. I dont know why, but I pretend Im the saxophonist when I listen to music. I have about as much chance playing the sax as I do learning how to fly. – Richard Price

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I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma. – Eartha Kitt

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I have no control over what people think of me but I have 100% control of what I think of myself, and that is so important. And not just about your body, but so many ways of confidence. Youre constantly learning how to be confident, arent you? – Beth Ditto

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What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do. – Aristotle

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The point is that knowledge of God is not prohibited under the First Amendment. – Roy Moore

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Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination. – Harry S. Truman

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When there is state there can be no freedom, but when there is freedom there will be no state. – Vladimir Lenin

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