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Unlike a small village, the city speaks loud and clear of history, of being the terminus of a long, cumulative process.

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Ideally, society is a dance, and every society has its own choreography that is passed down the generations.

To forgive is to erase a past, depriving it of its power to stain the present.

People who have ‘music’ in their souls are fun to be with.

Experience takes time and calls for patience.

Stars define civilization, as no single natural feature on Earth--tree, rock, stream, or mountain--can be said to define cultures.

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A generation which ignores history has no past —and no future.

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History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.

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If we don’t care about our past we can’t have very much hope for our future.

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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past, — so good night!

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