It is important for all of us to appreciate where we come from and how that history has really shaped us in ways that we might not understand.
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History provides a sense of where we've been and lessons that can be taken forward.
I think it's really important for me not to forget where I came from.
Granted, everybody is different, but I think it's real important to know all the people that you are around, and how they operate their history, and things like that. You know where they are coming from a little bit, and you don't insult them, or take something for granted.
So often, we don't realize that the very moments in which we live become our history, our story.
We take it for granted sometimes that certain parts of our history are told, and we take it for granted that we know all that stuff, and we move forward along on that basis, but there are also massive gaps, and we have to try to address them.
I think it's good that we're sometimes reminded of important events in history.
I shall always be grateful for this curious love of history, allowing me to spend a lifetime looking back into the past, allowing me to learn from these large figures about the struggle for meaning for life.
OUR history begins before we are born. We represent the hereditary influences of our race, and our ancestors virtually live in us.
Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of the defining impression of our being.
History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.
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