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Quote by David McCullough
A nation that forgets its past can function no better than an indi

A nation that forgets its past can function no better than an individual with amnesia. – David McCullough

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History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are. – David McCullough

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History
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History is a pageant and not a philosophy. – Augustine Birrell, Obiter Dicta: The Muse of History

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

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History

Permanent superiority has never been realized by any nation in history. After the rise comes the fall. – Paul Harris

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History

It is always self-defeating to pretend to a generation younger than your own it simply erases your own experience in history. – Renata Adler

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