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The memories of men are too frail a thread to hang history from. – John Still, The Jungle Tide

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The Supreme Courts only armor is the cloak of public trust its sole ammunition, the collective hopes of our society. – Irving R. Kaufman

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Unlike poetry and music, the art of history is cumulative. – John Clive, Not By Fact Alone

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The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice. – Mark Twain

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[T]he historian must serve two masters, the past and the present. – Fritz Stern, The Varieties of History

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