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Why study history?

December 8, 2009

“It is a chronicle of human events that teaches us – bit by bit by bit, like a mosaic that eventually forms a picture – about civilization and human nature and its consequences. Imagine two men who find themselves at the end of a centuries-long journey in time: One was asleep all along the way, and the other was awake. The latter man witnessed every triumph and calamity, learned where beauty flowered and where it died, and watched the greatest and most inglorious fights of good against evil. Which man would you choose as a leader? As a father? As a friend? Which would you rather be: the man who saw everything or the man who saw nothing? Your answer is the reason you should study history.” – Marilyn Vos Savant

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