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“What interests us about the past is at least partly a function of what bothers us or makes us curious in the present.”

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Adam Garfinkle, born on June 1, 1951, is an accomplished speechwriter. Throughout his career, he has crafted speeches for numerous notable individuals, renowned for his precise language and insightful writing. more

“Western elites - the beneficiaries of 60 years of peace and prosperity achieved by the sacrifices to defeat fascism and Communism - are unhappy in their late middle age, and show little gratitude for, or any idea about, what gave them such latitude. If they cannot find perfection in history, they see no good at all.”

Ifs Years Littles Ideas Shows Age History Sacrifice Middle Gratitude Late Perfection Western Defeat Prosperity Unhappy Communism Fascism Elites Middle Ages Latitude Beneficiaries

Author:Victor Davis Hanson

“I want to show audiences I can act.”

Want I Can Shows Audience

Author:Jackie Chan

“History does not eliminate grievances. It lays them down like landmines.”

Doe History Lays Grievance Landmines

Author:A. N. Wilson

“The past is dead, and nothing that we can choose to believe about it can harm or benefit those who were alive in it. On the other hand, it has the power to harm us.”

Believe Hands Past History Alive Benefits Harm

Book:The Shape of Irish History

Source: The Shape of Irish History

“If we are to understand anything of the human mind we must approach the people of the past with humility rather than an overconfident superiority.”

People Ifs Mind Humans Past History Humility Approach Human Mind Superiority Overconfident

Book:The Shape of Irish History

Source: The Shape of Irish History

“History is not the story of strangers, aliens from another realm; it is the story of us had we been born a little earlier. History is memory; we have to remember what it is like to be a Roman, or a Jacobite or a Chartist or even - if we dare, and we should dare - a Nazi. History is not abstraction, it is the enemy of abstraction.”

Ifs Should Littles Stories Remember Born Memories Enemy History Dare Stranger Aliens Realms Nazi Abstraction

Author:Stephen Fry

“No harm's done to history by making it something someone would want to read.”

Want Done History Harm

Book:David McCullough American History E-book Box Set: John Adams, 1776, Truman, The Course of Human Events

Source: David McCullough American History E-book Box Set: John Adams, 1776, Truman, The Course of Human Events

“We must not look at the past with the enormous condescension of posterity.”

Looks Past History Enormous Posterity Condescension

Author:E. P. Thompson

“The Past: Our cradle, not our prison; there is danger as well as appeal in its glamour. The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition.”

Life Wells Inspiration Past Memories History Danger Forgiveness Prison Appeals Imitation Remembrance Repetition Glamour Cradle Continuation

Book:The Voice of Jerusalem

Source: The Voice of Jerusalem

“Those who would repeat the past must control the teaching of history.”

Past History Teaching Repeats

Book:Chapterhouse: Dune

Source: Chapterhouse: Dune

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