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The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history. – Carl T. Rowan

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Our historic imagination is at best slightly developed. We generalise and idealise the past egregiously. We set up little toys to stand as symbols for centuries and the complicated lives of countless individuals. – John Dewey, Characters and Events

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[History is] petrified imagination. – Arthur Baer

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The day before yesterday always has been a glamour day. The present is sordid and prosaic. Time colors history as it does a meerschaum pipe. – Vincent Starrett, Buried Caesars

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[T]he Present is the living sum-total of the whole Past. – Thomas Carlyle, Characteristics

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