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Quote by Norman Cousins
A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place whe

A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life. – Norman Cousins

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People are never more insecure than when they become obsessed with their fears at the expense of their dreams. – Norman Cousins

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If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday. – Pearl Buck

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For what is history, but… huge libel on human nature, to which we industriously add page after page, volume after volume, as if we were holding up a monument to the honor, rather than the infamy of our species. – Washington Irving, History of New York

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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 is a great dust heap. – Thomas Carlyle, Obiter Dicta

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