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They can shout down the head of the physics department at Cal Tech

They can shout down the head of the physics department at Cal Tech. – James Stockdale

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Hes a novice, but hes had these – hes experienced in leadership in tight circumstances. He started – he dropped the first bomb, led the first air strike into North Vietnam. – James Stockdale

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One of the deepest impulses in man is the impulse to record, – to scratch a drawing on a tusk or keep a diary, to collect sagas and heap cairns. This instinct as to the enduring value of the past is, one might say, the very basis of civilization. – John Jay Chapman, Memories and Milestones

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We live in a world where amnesia is the most wished-for state. When did history become a bad word? – John Guare

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We are the prisoners of history. Or are we? – Robert Penn Warren, Segregation

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A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots. – Marcus Garvey

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