Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. Quotes About Past
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It is useful to remember that history is to the nation as memory is to the individual. As a person deprived of memory becomes disorientated and lost, not knowing where they have been or where they are going , so a nation denied a conception of the past will be disabled in dealing with its present and its future.
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Santayana's aphorism must be reversed: too often it is those who can remember the past who are condemned to repeat it.
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Science and Technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response. Expelled from individual consciousness by the rush of change, history finds its revenge by stamping the collective unconscious with habits, values, expectations, dreams. The dialectic between past and future will continue to form our lives.
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Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
- Born: October 15, 1917
- Died: February 28, 2007
- Occupation: Historian
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