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Barbara Bloom Quote – Filling The Cracks With Gold
“When the Japanese mend broken objects, they aggrandize the damage by filling the cracks with gold. They believe that when something’s suffered damage and has a history it becomes more beautiful.” – Barbara Bloom
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Bill Vaughan Quote – Swap History Books
“It might be a good idea if the various countries of the world would occasionally swap history books, just to see what other people are doing with the same set of facts.” – Bill Vaughan
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Thomas Cahill Quote – History
“We normally think of history as one catastrophe after another, war followed by war, outrage by outrage — almost as if history were nothing more than all the narratives of human pain, assembled in sequence. And surely this is, often enough, an adequate description. But history is also the narratives of grace, the recountings of those blessed and inexplicable moments […]
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Hugh Trevor-Roper Quote – History Is Not Merely What Happened
“History is not merely what happened. It is what happened in the context of what might have happened.” – Hugh Trevor-Roper
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