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‟ The Canadian government has had a field day apologising for past policies towards a series of ethnic groups: Italian, Ukrainian, Sikh, Chinese, Japanese and Jews.
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‟ The passion for the past is clearly about more than market forces or government policies. History responds to a variety of needs, from greater understanding of ourselves and our world to answers about what to do.
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‟ For many human beings, an interest in the past starts with themselves. That is, in part, a result of biology. Like other creatures, humans have a beginning and an ending, and in between lies their story.
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‟ I'm always wary of the lessons of the past. There's a lot of past out there, and you can draw whatever lessons you want.
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‟ We must do our best to raise the public awareness of the past in all its richness and complexity.
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‟ I first read the 'Raj Quartet' in the early 1970s, when Paul Scott's decision to set his novels in the dying days of the British Raj in India seemed an eccentric choice, almost as though he did not want readers. The British were tired of their imperial past.
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‟ You shouldn't expect people in the past to do things they couldn't have done.
- Margaret MacMillan