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• When we concern ourselves with the study of history, we become storytellers.
  Because we can never know the past directly but must construct it by interpreting evidence, exploring history is more of a creative enterprise than it is an objective pursuit....
• For 300 years we have denied the carnal side of our nature.
  How can we learn to put that aside? Eh, well, you....
• The best that we can do is to be kindly and helpful toward our friends and fellow passengers who are clinging to the same speck of dirt while we are drifting side by side to our common doom.
  -- Clarence S. Darrow (1857-1938)...
• The best that we can do is to be kindly and helpful toward our friends and fellow passengers who are clinging to the same speck of dirt while we are drifting side by side to our common doom.
  -- Clarence Darrow...
• HISTORIANS do it over long periods of time
• We chased our pleasures here, dug out treasures there.
  Can you still recall the time we cried? Break on through to the other side. -- The Doo...
• We certainly have a right to exercise control over our own bodies.
  You'll get no argument from me. -- Riker and Dr. Pulaski, "Up the Long Ladder", stardate 42823.2...
• We control the horizontal, we control the vertical, we can make the picture into a soft blur or sharpen it to crystal clarity.
• History doesn't repeat itself -- historians merely repeat each other. -- First Rule of History