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But they lived those extraordinary lives that can never be lived again. And in the living of them, they gave me a history that is more profound, more beautiful, more powerful, more passionate, and ultimately more useful, than the best damn history book I ever read.

— Utah Phillips

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I'm here to change the world, and if I am not, I am probably wasting my time.

As I have said so often before, the long memory is the most radical idea in America…."

on a CD called The Long Memory (1996)

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