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With the perspective afforded by the passage of time, where does 9/11 rank as a turning point in our national history? For the victims and their families, innocents going about their lives, suddenly and brutally murdered, no other day can ever matter as much. – Jon Meacham

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The fact is that America has been at her most prosperous when government and the private sector have been not at war, but in a wary, if often underplayed, alliance. History is unmistakable on this point. – Jon Meacham

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Part of what I loved – and love – about being around older people is the tangible sense of history they embody. Im interested in military history, for instance, because both my grandfathers fought in World War II. Im interested in writing because one of those grandfathers wrote books. – Jon Meacham

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Without education, we are weaker economically. Without economic power, we are weaker in terms of national security. No great military power has ever remained so without great economic power. – Jon Meacham

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Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars. – Aristotle

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So many people of color who made major contributions to American history have been trapped in the purgatory of history. – Henry Louis Gates

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And History will smile to think that this is the species for which Socrates and Jesus Christ died. – Julien Benda

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When a history book contains no lies it is always tedious. – Anatole France, The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard

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Where you are in consciousness has everything to do with what you see in experience. – Eric Butterworth

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