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People tend to forget that the word “history” contains the word “story”. – 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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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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Learning
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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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History is never antiquated, because humanity is always fundamentally the same. – Walter Rauschenbusch

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History

In my early 20s, I studied history and politics, and I really thought that perhaps I would devote my life to that. – Wallace Shawn

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History

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history. – Aldous Huxley

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History

A strange thing is memory, and hope one looks backward, and the other forward one is of today, the other of tomorrow. Memory is history recorded in our brain, memory is a painter, it paints pictures of the past and of the day. – Grandma Moses

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History

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Yale places great stress on undergraduate and graduate teaching. I like teaching, and I do a lot of it. – James Tobin

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The undertaking of a new action brings new strength. – Richard L. Evans

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