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It is not the honor that you take with you, but the heritage you leave behind.

When you tell people you're in history, they give you this pained expression because that was the course they hated in high school. But history can be exciting, intellectually rigorous, and fun.

I don't think anything about a personal legacy. I mean, those words would never come out of my mouth unless I just repeated them. Those things have never been important to me.

I don't have a big thing about leaving my mark or being historic.

Condemn me. It does not matter. History will absolve me.

Would it be an honor to be bestowed Hall of Fame credentials? Yeah. Does it define me as a person? No.

I will come out with my interpretation. If I'm wrong, fine. It will become part of the debris of history, part of the give and take.

Ultimately, a real understanding of history means that we face nothing new under the sun.

What we normally define as history doesn't interest me. It's a constraint.