Best quotes by Ken Burns on History

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• ‟ I subscribe to William Faulkner's' view that history is not just about what we were before but who we are now.

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• ‟ Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of the defining impression of our being.

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• ‟ You can learn as much about the history from reading about the present as you can vice versa, that is learning about the present through history, which is what I do for a living.

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• ‟ History is malleable. A new cache of diaries can shed new light, and archeological evidence can challenge our popular assumptions.

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• ‟ History's just been made for sale to an inside deal.

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