"A nation that forgets its past can function no better than an individual with amnesia."

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Source : "Plastic £5 note featuring Sir Winston Churchill to enter circulation", www.theguardian.com. September 9, 2016.

David McCullough

#Past Quotes #History Quotes #Forget Quotes

“I grew up in the suburbs north of Atlanta. I had an amazing childhood, and I still go back to my home in Atlanta often.”
“Freud thought he was bringing the plague to the U.S.A., but the U.S.A. has victoriously resisted the psychoanalytical frost by real deep freezing, by mental and sexual refrigeration. They have countered the black magic of the Unconscious with the white magic of "doing your own thing," air conditioning, sterilization, mental frigidity and the cold media of information.”
“I cannot forget a conversation that I had with an elderly couple from the tribe. They asked me whether I would kill them after I had finished. When I asked them why they asked that, they replied, Because you white men always do!”
“My parents did great and provided well, and gave all their kids personal, moral, ethical values, not a belief that we were entitled to something.”

Source : "Bonnie Hammer: She is Sci Fi". Interview with Porter Anderson, www.cnn.com. October 9, 2001.
“The budget should be balanced, the treasury refilled, public debt reduced, the arrogance of officialdom tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands curtailed, lest Rome become bankrupt.”
“I do not see any reason why they should not be given the means to give their teachers just as high an education as is secured by attendance at the Protestant schools.”
“Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you-trippingly on the tongue; but if you mouth it, as many of your players do, I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines. Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently; for in the very torrent, tempest, and as I may say, the whirlwind of your passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.”
“You find yourself in the world, without any power, immovable as a rock, stupid, so to speak, as a log of wood.”

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