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People tend to forget that the word “history” contains the word “story”. – Ken Burns

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I think we too often make choices based on the safety of cynicism, and what were lead to is a life not fully lived. Cynicism is fear, and its worse than fear – its active disengagement. – Ken Burns

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Fear
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Ken Burns
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I have made a film about jazz that tries to look through jazz to see what it tells us about who we are as a people. I think that jazz is a spectacularly accurate model of democracy and a kind of look into our redemptive future possibilities. – Ken Burns

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Future
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I record all of my music with authentic instruments in a studio before we start editing, doing many, many versions. The music shapes the film as we edit so it has an organic relationship to the content. – Ken Burns

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relationship
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I think really, China, Chinese, I think they really have a long history of civilization, rich culture. – Dalai Lama

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History

It is part of my creed that the only poetry is history, could we tell it right. – Thomas Carlyle

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History

Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it. – Pope John Paul II

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History

If a secret history of books could be written, and the authors private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader! – William Makepeace Thackeray

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History

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You can do anything you think you can. This knowledge is literally the gift of the gods, for through it you can solve every human problem. It should make of you an incurable optimist. It is the open door. – Robert Collier

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The virtue of paganism was strength the virtue of Christianity is obedience. – Augustus Hare

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Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams. – Hosea Ballou

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Seasons pursuing each other the indescribable crowd is gathered, it is the fourth of Seventh-month, (what salutes of cannon and small arms!) – Walt Whitman

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