"The very concept of history implies the scholar and the reader. Without a generation of civilized people to study history, to preserve its records, to absorb its lessons and relate them to its own problems, history, too, would lose its meaning."

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Source : "Putting History at Risk". www.nytimes.com. May 27, 1984.

George F. Kennan

#People Quotes #Generations Quotes #Records Quotes

“Inner guidance is heard like soft music in the night by those who have learned to listen.”
“I've achieved many of my dreams, and I want to see that some others get a chance to, especially younger Texans.”
“In the U.S. alone, weather disasters caused $50 billion in economic damages in 2010.”
“We who have lived before railways were made belong to another world. It was only yesterday, but what a gulf between now and then! Then was the old world. Stage-coaches, more or less swift, riding-horses, pack-horses, highwaymen, knights in armor, Norman invaders, Roman legions, Druids, Ancient Britons painted blue, and so forth -- all these belong to the old period. But your railroad starts the new era, and we of a certain age belong to the new time and the old one. We who lived before railways, and survive out of the ancient world, are like Father Noah and his family out of the Ark.”
“I don't feel like I'm on a mission. I'm trying to play music that I like to play and like to listen to”
“The travesty of slavery wasn't physical abuse. It was the moral abuse of looking at a human being as if they are an animal.”
“Through positive thinking and related approaches, we seek the safety and solid ground of certainty, of knowing how the future will turn out, of a time in the future when we'll be ceaselessly happy and never have to fear negative emotions again. But in chasing all that, we close down the very faculties that permit the happiness we crave.”
“The only thing you should force in a golf swing is the club back in the bag.”

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