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In a sense, words are encyclopedias of ignorance because they freeze perceptions at one moment in history and then insist we continue to use these frozen perceptions when we should be doing better. – Edward de Bono

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Western history has been a history of deed done, actions performed and results achieved. – Arthur Erickson

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Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Theres a lot of revisionist history that goes on these days about Iraq. – Joe Biden

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Historians are gossips who tease the dead. – Voltaire, Scribbling Books

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