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If a race has no history, if it has no worthwhile tradition, it becomes a negligible factor in the thought of the world, and it stands in danger of being exterminated. – Carter G. Woodson

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Histories are a kind of distilled newspapers. – Thomas Carlyle, Heroes and Hero Worship

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After being Turned Down by numerous Publishers, he had decided to write for Posterity. – George Ade

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History is an argument without end. – Pieter Geyl

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The past remains integral to us all, individually and collectively. We must concede the ancients their place, as I have argued. But their place is not simply back there in a separate and foreign country; it is assimilated in ourselves, and resurrected into an ever-changing present. – David Lowenthal, The Past Is a Foreign Country

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