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STUDY HISTORY AND POLITICAL THEORY RELENTLESSLY. We do ourselves no favors by being ignorant of the past experiences and summations of those who came before us.

— Stephanie McMillan The Beginning of the American Fall: A Comics Journalist Inside the Occupy Wall Street Movement (2012)

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Life runs much faster than our ability to record and interpret it.

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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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